There are rules, even in organized crime and the intelligence organizations that fight it. But the one golden rule is that families are off limits. Everyone has a family and nobody wants them involved. Not in the States, not in Europe, and not in Russia. Business is business, and family is family. He broke the rule. He left a message for Johnny, the man who had single handedly destroyed the criminal empire he and his family oversaw. Johnny barely remembered, it had just been another job in another country far away; a job he had been asked to do and that he had done. But now it was personal for Johnny. When Johnny goes to bring back his family, he also goes to send a message of his own. Johnny has the full backing of the US intelligence agencies; it was under their direction that he had crushed organized crime in Latvia. He's the best at what he does. Johnny's true love - failed though the romance was - is also his handler. And everything - even messages - comes at a cost. And those costs are very personal.