A foriegn assassin arrives in New York dead from a heart attack. The CIA knows that he had a contract to assassinate an American diplomat but they don't know who the target is, who the contractor is, or who the dead assassin's back up is. And time is running out. The Company recruites a former agent, Jackie Holt, who left the Company three years earlier after being abandoned in a hot zone and left for dead, to find the back-up, the target, and the contractor. When the identity of the back-up is learned, the question "Is blood thicker than water, is blood thicker than professional loyalty?"