John Milton is in Rio de Janeiro, staying with an old army friend who runs a private security company. When one of the bodyguards doesn't turn up for work, Milton offers to stand in. The job is routine: take the wife and daughter of an anti-corruption judge to a school recital. What could possibly go wrong? But the girl is snatched off the street and Milton is nearly killed. As he recovers at a Group Fifteen safe house, he works out what to do next...