Alexei a retired Russian Spetsnaz officer has drifted into a lucrative career in contract killing. A fluent Spanish speaker, after military service in Cuba, the St. Petersburg mafia hire him to recover substantial investment funds stolen by a crooked Spanish property developer and corrupt Town Hall officials. An unexpected meeting with a former student, a member of ETA, to whom he taught bomb making, during an earlier assignment, provides Alexei with a willing accomplice in his ventures. The FSB interrupt Alexei's plans in Spain, leaning on him to carry out an unofficial assassination on behalf of the Russian government. The action takes place in Russia, Cuba, Andorra and Spain.