Former soldier of fortune and current personal protection agent Carson Ambrose has been called into work on his first day off in months. Upon hearing that his client Kukumba Adagumbe is a simple coffee farmer from Uganda, Ambrose figures he is in for yet another boring personal security detail. However, after Adagumbe reveals that he and his family are on the run from Uganda's bloodthirsty Oppressed People's Liberation Front, Ambrose quickly realizes that nothing about this detail is as it seems. Especially when a pair of skilled assassins show up on the streets of Chicago, in search of the Adagumbes. Meanwhile, halfway across the world, eleven year old Butu Tshombe must come to terms with the fact that life as he knows it is over. Captured by the same rebel group now hunting the Adagumbes, Butu is forced to join the ranks of countless other child soldiers abducted by the OPLF. Can young Butu survive amongst an army of madmen without losing his own humanity? Or will he devolve into a savage beast like his captors, devils in the flesh.