Peter Ofondo is survivor of an Africa torn by hapless civil war and tragic loss.Now he returns to Nigeria to confront the 4-1-9 syndicate, a mafia-style organization with contacts in high places, who thrived under the previous regime of General Abacha.Peter’s father, a titled chief in his eighties, has just been killed - his car accidentally caught in the crossfire of a brutal 4-1-9 feud - and Peter is determined to avenge his death.Chief Superintendent Stephen Osita, too, is even more anxious to eradicate the syndicate after their horrific gang-rape and murder of a local beauty queen. But it is Peter Ofondu who confronts the killers first. However, will the commando skills he learned long ago in the Bifran war be a match for the desperate men who have brought terror to the region?