Lieutenant Jamal Jenkins and his pararescue team are sent to the highlands of the Nile where a burst dam has caused massive flooding, and a humanitarian crisis; but contending local war lords make it difficult to get people the food and medicine they need--especially after one of the team's helicopters is shot down in the crocodile infested Nile River.

An official plane carrying the United States ambassador to Venezuela has been shot down over the jungle by a rebel group led by Miguel Ramos, who is known as The Viper, and Lieutenant Jamal Jenkins and his squad of pararescue men have been assigned to parachute in and rescue them--but from the beginning things go wrong, and soon the team is caught up in a tense game of cat and mouse in the Amazon jungle.