- Tyson Rios and Elliot Salem are two ex Army Rangers turned contractors for a Private Military Corporation. They embark on missions ranging from the caves of Afghanistan all the way to abandoned villages of China.
- In 1993 two U.S Army Rangers Corporal Tyson Rios and Private First-Class Eliot Salem are deployed into Somali to eliminate warlord Abdullahi Mo'Alim, their handler, Lieutenant Colonel Richard Dalton orders them to meet with a contractor from Security and Strategic Corporation (SSC), Philip Clyde, a skilled but abrasive character. Mo'Alim is assassinated and the Rangers are extracted, Clyde offers Dalton a job at SSC, Dalton brings Rios and Salem along.
Rios and Tyson are introduced to Alice Murray, their new mission handler. On the morning of September 11th, 2001, the infamous 911 disaster has struck, Rios and Salem are sent to Afghanistan to kill chemical weapons developer Mohammed Al-Habib, destroy ballistic missiles and rescue captured SSC operative Bill Hicks. They succeed in their mission, but a suspicious Rios questions many things about the mission and an increase on ambushes on U.S. troops.
In 2003, Rios and Salem are sent to Iraq to rescue captured officer, Lieutenant Colonel Sam Eisenhower. He's placed aboard a rescue helicopter which explodes mid-flight, the alleged perpetrator is Ali Youssef, they eliminate him, but Rios is still suspicious of Eisenhower's death and the U.S. Army being ambushed, he contacts a hacker friend known as S3kShUn8 (Section 8) to investigate for leaks.
By 2008 Congress is pushing a controversial bill to replace the U.S. military with private contractors, at the same time, terrorists have seized an aircraft carrier in the pacific which gives more weight to the argument for a private military, Rios and Salem are parachuted in with Clyde who goes off on his own. They find him passing information to the terrorists further in the ship, Clyde flees, Rios seizes a flash drive for S3kShUn8 to analyze, it contains proof of leaked information to enemies of the U.S. Rios and Salem find the ship's Captain, nuclear weapons are onboard, and the carrier is set on a collision course for Manilla. The engines room are booby-trapped, so Rios and Salem sink the ship and escape on a lifeboat.
In 2009 the privatization bill is in its final stages, a U.S. senator, Richard Whitehorse, is opposing the bill fiercely. Rios and Salem are in China on a mission to assassinate an Abu-Sayyaf terrorist crossing a bridge, the bridge is destroyed along with the people on it. But the person they killed was actually Senator Whitehorse, Rios and Salem are wanted for murder and the Chinese military are hunting them.
Rios contacts Alice to let her know of the conspiracy and their belief that the SSC CEO Ernest Stockwell is behind it with Clyde, Alice finds evidence that Dalton is actually the perpetrator and is kidnapped. Rios and Salem borrow a cargo plane from a South Korean contact to fly to Miami, Clyde is onboard and has killed the pilot and gets into a shootout with Rios and Salem. The Air Force shoots the unmanned plane down over U.S. waters, Clyde is believed dead and Rios and Salem escape to Miami in a hovercraft.
A hurricane has flooded the city, first landing is at Miami airport where Rios and Salem fight SSC operatives and rescue Alice, she says that Dalton intends to kill Stockwell and take over SSC, making them virtually unstoppable. They have to save Stockwell to clear their names and retrieve copies of evidence of SSC's crimes. Clyde is alive and their last hurdle to Dalton who is also killed.
In the epilogue Stockwell serves a three-month prison sentence, Alice receives a call from Rios telling her that he and Salem have started their own PMC Trans World Operations (TWO) and he offers her a job there.
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