In war-torn Iraq, Stratton's closest friend is killed on operation, leaving behind a grieving wife and child

- Stratton's godson. When the widow moves to Los Angeles she is brutally murdered and her child placed in state custody. Stratton, rocked to his core by the killing, uncovers an FBI plot to hide the crime and sets off on a private operation of revenge that eventually pits him against one of the most powerful Eastern European crime syndicates in America. Hunted by the CIA and FBI as well as a brutal army of Albanian mobsters, and armed only with his wits and an extraordinary skill with explosives, Stratton relentlessly pursues his private war - a fight he suspects could be his last...