Play stupid games, get stupid prizes.

That’s a favorite phrase of Major Abe Darabie. It makes it easier to justify the terrible things he’s forced to do while at war against the Nuevas Fronteras cartel, a powerful syndicate that is intent on controlling oil production by seizing refineries along the Gulf Coast. After all, if Abe has to snip off some cartel lieutenant’s fingers and toes to get the intelligence he needs, well...they played a stupid game, and that’s their stupid prize.

Yeah, Abe knows he’s a black-hearted devil. But he gets the job done.

His current job? Extract seven families being held hostage by Nuevas Fronteras as a means of controlling the refinery workers. Saving a bunch of women and children seems like a pretty righteous mission, and Abe is fully prepared to do whatever it takes to save those families–no matter who he has to kill or who he has to break down into pieces.

But when he’s forced to choose between the success of the mission and the life of a local teenage girl, Abe discovers that there are certain lines even he is afraid to cross. As the cartel closes in on his team and the chances of a successful mission begin to erode, Abe is forced to confront whether the ends justify the means and how much of a black-hearted devil he’s really willing to be in order to get the job done.