Robert Vance is a quiet, work-at-home magazine editor who occasionally moonlights as a contract killer. He's on his way to retirement after making some serious mistakes on his last assignment and violating one of his own immutable rules, no collateral damage. But he is drawn back into the dark world of assassinations when a friend is targeted. He knows he should stay away; he's not as fast nor as sharp as he used to be, and his confidence is waning. But when he learns his friend's daughter might be in the crosshairs of a predator, he can't stay on the sidelines.