Ex-undercover cop Marshall Grade is hiding out in California when he learns that federal agent Lucas Cohen has survived a kidnapping. Cohen was Marshall s ticket into witness protection, and his captors have a simple question: where s Marshall now?

Marshall s undercover work gave him a long list of enemies, and the enemy in this case is a corrupt businessman named Dexter Vine. Vine s almost broke, in debt to people even worse than himself, and he wants to settle old scores while he has time. He s hired Ludo Coltrane a nonchalant psychopath and part-time bar manager to find Marshall at any cost. Ludo s no stranger to killing, but his associate, the cash-strapped ex-con Perry Rhodes, may prove more of a liability than an asset.

The question is: what has Marshall done to make Dexter want him dead? And are the contacts from his old life ex-colleague Lana, and the heroin dealer Henry Lee prepared to help him, or will they just sell him out?