Swedish government agent Piet Hoffmann is on the run: both from a life prison sentence and from the Polish drug mafia he double-crossed. When Hoffmann accepts employment as a hit man for a Colombian cocaine mafia, and is simultaneously approached by the US DEA to infiltrate the same cartel, he agrees to both. When a prominent US figure is kidnapped, this gives the cartel and the US government the same problem: Piet Hoffmann.