The white elites are planning a military coup. To help fund this coup, they employ three African ex-special forces to poach rhinos and elephants in a mountain reserve in Tanzania. The reserve has not seen any hunting or poaching for over fifty years. Don Scales, the head warden in the reserve, finds out about the poaching when one of his rangers, on one of his visits to the reserve, finds the carcass of a female elephant. Scales with the ranger fly to the reserve and follows up with their best tracker, and find a second carcass of a large male elephant, and the tracker follows the tracks.

The poaching is reported in a journal in Johannesburg, where a reporter, Angela Murchin, decides to pursue the story. The editor tells her to drop the story, but she persists and flies to Tanzania to try to talk to Scales. What neither of them knows is that the Minister for the Environment is being paid to look the other way, as is the general of the army divisions stationed some fifty kilometres from the ranger station.

As Murchin digs deeper with the help of Scales, they discover the extent of the corruption across Tanzania. Mozambique and South Africa.

An order goes out that Scales and Murchin must be stopped by any means possible.

Yet to escape these forces seems impossible.