Alexei a retired Russian Spetsnaz officer has drifted into a lucrative career in contract killing. A fluent Spanish speaker, after military service in Cuba, the St. Petersburg mafia hire him to recover substantial investment funds stolen by a crooked Spanish property developer and corrupt Town Hall officials. An unexpected meeting with a former student, a member of ETA, to whom he taught bomb making, during an earlier assignment, provides Alexei with a willing accomplice in his ventures. The FSB interrupt Alexei’s plans in Spain, leaning on him to carry out an unofficial assassination on behalf of the Russian government. The action takes place in Russia, Cuba, Andorra and Spain.

Alexei Guliyev, a former Soviet Spetsnaz officer is tempted out of his Caribbean retirement with a lucrative assignment in Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar to infiltrate and destroy the organization of a Russian international weapons trafficker. Behind the assignment is a U.S. security company with links to the C.I.A. Trawling the nightspots of Bangkok, underworld contacts bring him to the attention of his target Igor Nizienko. Gaining Nizienko's confidence, he organises an attack on a Burmese army unit to capture the colonel who is disrupting arms supplies to local rebels. With the on-going expansion of Nizienko's arms deals, supplying the Taliban and the Free Syrian Army; Alexei joins a covert U.N. led assault on the temple complex to finally capture the vast weapons cache. The plot based on factual data gives a fascinating insight into the remote and dangerous world of the illegal arms trade in Southeast Asia.