Chev Chelios is a professional assassin working for the West Coastcrime syndicate. Chev's girlfriend Eve doesn't know what Chev does andChev is planning to quit the crime syndicate so he can spend more timewith her. But for Chev, things about to get very bad, when he learns hehas been injected with a poison called "The Beijing Cocktail" by hisrival Verona, which will kill him if his heart rate drops. Trying tostay alive and seeking help from friend, Kaylo and Doc Miles, to keephis heart pumping. Chev sets out to find answers as well as protectingEve, and get his revenge on those who have betrayed him before thepoison kills him.