The security situation in the Sahel has deteriorated. When an ambitious warlord acquires a hellfire missile from a crashed American drone, US intelligence officer Brent Cunningham must face his past on a fateful mission to prevent an atrocity in Niger, West Africa. Hopeless on his own, Brent assembles an unlikely team and pursues a reckless partnership with a mysterious former colleague, only to learn that the danger is far greater than he knew.