During a mission with her special ops Task Force 24 team in Mali, North Africa, sergeant Odelle Ballard stumbles upon encrypted files that prove a major American corporation called the SOC is secretly funding terrorists. She copies it onto a flash drive before the untrustworthy private military group OSELA show up. After an attack on her unit, she becomes the sole survivor and must make the gruelling journey back home.

Meanwhile, former US attorney-turned-business investigator Pete Decker uncovers corruption in the private sector at his new job, and G8 protest organizer Harrison Walters suspects a government cover-up when a fellow activist hacks into sergeant Ballard's webmail account and finds her distress signal. Show less