An incident on the Botswana border with South West Africa, involving the strange death of a young border guard, puts Specialist Insurgency Neutralisation Squad Officer - Lieutenant Ray Pike - on the tail of a lethal adversary. Ingwe - is a man with a deadly mission which will ultimately impact on the outcome of South Africa's border war with Angola. The bloody trail culminates in a battle near a small village deep in Angola, where Doctor Rebecca Goodbrother - the daughter of an American Senator - unwittingly provides Ingwe with the ideal opportunity to sour America's relationship with the South African Government.Beautiful Paula Getz, an amateur wildlife photographer living a reclusive life on the edge of the vast Kalahari desert, enters Ray's life at precisely the wrong time - in precisely the wrong place...