A hardy ex-con on the do-good comeback trail decides to get on the side of the law, this time against the vicious illegal drug trade. He gets a hellish dose of the mob's venomous ways as scalawag cops on the take set him and his ex-Marine cohorts up for a massacre--a bloody episode he alone miraculously survives. Raging with the vengeful angst of wronged lawman, he launches his own perilous gambit against the mob, who resorts to abducting his wife, the deadly collateral in the underworld's lawless game of search-cash-in-destroy. The murderous odds against him pile high by the minute.