Archie Mellor is a retired SAS commando, who has served all over the world, and several times in Africa. He is disgruntled to be called out of retirement from his Pub home in Scotland to a meeting in London. He is told that he is to head up a special operation in South Africa with a crack team chosen by the Intelligence Service to serve under him. He is not pleased to hear that one of them is a woman, though he learns later how valuable she is to the mission. It is 1987, the winds of change are beginning to blow, and Archie knows there is going to be a windstorm.