Nick Finlay, a US senator with vital evidence against drug smugglers in Colombia, is taken hostage by FARC guerillas. Serpent's Eye operatives Rik Abbot and Emilia Gonzalez are tasked with freeing Finlay and bringing the traffickers to justice. Fuelled by intrigue, corruption and greed, the story speeds through the streets of Bogota, the forests of Colombia and the criminal underworld of New York.