Jake Graves, 42, spent years as a top government operative before divorce pushed him into seclusion. He sees his daughter only now and then. Lily lives with her mother, Claire, and a stepfather, and she has gone half a year without speaking to Jake. On an internship as a reporter at the US-Mexico border, Lily films the cartel La Sombra holding captives in a derelict plant. Her cover is blown, and she is kidnapped. Desperate, she calls her father by video, and the masked captor Victor Cortes sneers good luck and cuts the feed.
Jake digs out equipment he has kept in storage and phones former comrades: Maya Kroos, a sharp combat sniper, and Leo Chen, an elite hacker. The three of them set out to rescue her and dismantle the cartel, and every step forces Jake to confront how far he has drifted from his daughter.
