Major Alan Dutch Schaefer, former U.S. Army Green Beret has left the military to lead his own mercenary team, specializing solely in rescue mission contracts. Hired by the CIA, he takes his team into the Central American jungle in search of a cabinet minister whose helicopter crashed in hostile territory and is now a hostage of guerilla forces in Val Verde. However, the mission is not what it seems...

Shortly after discovering the mutilated remains of another Special Forces unit, they successfully attack and destroy a heavily defended rebel encampment. George Dillion, their CIA liaison, confesses that the rescue mission was in fact nothing more than a ploy, used to bring in Schaefer's team to attack the camp; and the fallen unit they discovered disappeared during the failed rescue of two CIA agents. Meanwhile, as they travel to the extraction point, someone or something is watching the men from afar, tracking them with thermal imaging. The fearless, merciless creature begins to hunt these men, armed with advanced weaponry and technology, he stalks his prey, collecting the skulls of his victims as trophies and leaving a trail of bloody carnage in his wake.