Ben Reid returns to West Papua to bury the ghosts of his past, while his new ally, policeman Jack Shaw, investigates corrupt connections in the Australian bureaucracy. But Ben needs the help of the drug lord known as the Dutchman, a man Jack has worked his whole career to bring down. Can their friendship survive their conflicting agendas and still bring the criminals to justice?

Ex-spy Ben Reid and policeman Jack Shaw have shaken up the global drug trade with the removal of major players from Amsterdam to Indonesia to Australia. But a vacuum is a fleeting state of affairs, which soon attracts new challengers. The remnants of the Dutch and Indonesian syndicates fight off new players—the Russian mob and the Mexican cartels. Caught in the crossfire are the people Ben and Jack love. Who survives and who falls in this new world order?