Introducing John Ransome who, as a tough 18-year-old kid, joins the French Foreign Legion where he remains for five years. During this time he rescues a group of school children being held hostage on a school bus, and after leaving the Legion he joins the Police Force and works in the Armed Response Unit. This is a tale of violent action in a story of love, murder and vengeance, as Ransome and his SAS friends have no mercy in their fight against kidnappers, terrorists, gangsters and pirates in London, Djibouti and on the high seas.