Brian Clancy is a former Marine hooked on drugs. Since his illness is badly advanced, treatment is wildly expensive. The leader of the local mafia, seeing his hopeless situation, offers the ex–Special Forces man to pay for his treatment in exchange for a small favor—deliver an information disc to an address. When Brian realizes he’s been trapped and that the mafia needs him only as a slave, it’s already too late—there’s nowhere to run, unless it’s to war.