After being nationally humiliated and earning himself a death sentence from every gangster in Seattle, FBI agent Nate Washington is ready to call it quits. His days are spent courting a whiskey bottle and reliving the past. That is until a series of child kidnappings in the local projects drag him back into the world of his undercover days and into the hands of his old crew leader, Marcus Morris, whose son is one of the missing.

Morris gives Nate an ultimatum: Find his son and redeem himself or die disgraced in an unknown basement. Without any love for Morris, but a desire to bring the kids to safety, Nate accepts, starting a journey that will pit Nate against genetically modified monsters, sociopathic tech-gurus, a militant police force, and an unstoppable death cult eager to plunge the waking world into a very real nightmare.