Trying to get back to normal, West and company take a job helping a former client escape her abusive, powerful husband. The simple job - fake a kidnapping, buy a new identity, get her out of the country - is complicated when the husband works out what's going on. He has the money and influence to make their lives hell, from hiring soldiers to hunt them down, to exposing the Dead Men to the world. *** 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.