 John Carter lives with a deadly secret, kept even from his young wife and child: a former secret life working as a hitman for a shadowy political organisation. When Carter s peaceful new life is shattered by the murder of his family, the police begin to investigate his mysterious past, and the only friend he can turn to is a fellow hitman named Karl Loveberg. Karl draws John back into the dark world of contract killers - a world he thought he had left behind.