Six months after Caracas, Cole Raker's team lives off-grid-no clean IDs, no stable money, no margin for mistakes.

Then an impossible escrow deposit lands in a dead account, and a new mission arrives with the same fingerprints as the last one: clean funding, vague authority, and instructions that don't add up.

Along the U.S.-Mexico border, a cartel money pipeline is shifting-couriers, shell routes, and protected transfers designed to survive any raid. Raker's team is hired to hit one piece of it, but the deeper they push, the clearer it becomes: they're being used to reshape the corridor for someone higher up the chain.

Between cartel gunmen, compromised law enforcement, and a shadow client who speaks in "custody" and "compliance," Raker faces a choice that gets men killed-walk away, or pull the thread that leads straight back to the people who burned them.