Aleska Maric is a Russian soldier and a highly skilled specialist field operative. Her expert knowledge of the vast Amazon jungle and her tactical operational skills has her joining forces with a covert British Special Forces Unit tracking a fearsome and resourceful Cuban drug lord, hiding in the depths of the Amazon Basin; wanted for the murder of a senior British diplomat as well as the murders of several wealthy European businessmen. Aleska had no problem offering her services to the British Special Forces but it is the unbearable and insufferable Commanding Officer, Colonel Stone Bretton that she had unresolved issues with.