After finishing a 'black operation' in South America for the CIA, John Michaels quit the agency, sick and tired of a life on the edge. Serving as a guide for a rafting trip to the Colorado river, Michaels is involved in a deadly game of murder and intrigue concerning the Vice-President of the United States, a beautiful woman and a cold blooded killer bent on murder. To everybody around him, he is just an average Joe, until his tranquil life in the vastness of Arizona is turned upside down and he is force to run for his life, involved with the Vice-President and a beautiful woman in a most dangerous game of survival and death, where only the best survive.