Former naval special forces fighter Braen Clancy became addicted to drugs. The illness is too far gone, and there’s no way out—yet the expensive treatment is unexpectedly paid for by the boss of the local mafia. What does he want in return from Clancy? A trifle: to deliver an information disk to an address. Braen doesn’t immediately realize it’s a trap: the mafia needs him as a slave. What now—where to run? Unless only to war.