Blackmailed into a job they tried to turn down, West and company are tasked with killing a warlord's son, Abi, and the men protecting him. Trapped in his mansion, West discovers that hassling the locals isn't the worst thing Abi's done. He's restarted the experiment that led to the exile of the Dead Men in the first place, and he might only be the tip of the iceberg. *** The Dead Men are a company of corporate soldiers on the run for the crime of disobeying orders and breaking their contracts. Lying low in a small African nation still recovering from its last civil war, they put their unique skills and moral apathy to good use. Warlords, the government, rebels, even foreign corporations eager to exploit the tumultuous nation, the Dead Men will work for anyone, for the right price.