在这部可卡因的战争剧情/动作片中,迈阿密缉毒局特工克里夫·亚当斯在南美洲为美国最大的可卡因出口商冈萨罗·雷耶斯做卧底。克里夫的未婚妻，珍妮特·米德，是一名记者做关于雷耶斯的故事。雷耶斯命令克里夫杀死正在竞选总统的马塞洛·维拉巴，但是克里夫不能让自己去做这件事，因为他从DEA那里得到的任务是反对雷耶斯。雷耶斯担心维拉巴会让他破产，他担心珍妮特的故事也会发生同样的事情，所以雷耶斯会在维拉巴之后再派人，然后雷耶斯绑架了珍妮特，而克里夫是唯一一个能让雷耶斯的计划成功的人。
Miami DEA agent Cliff Adams is in South America working undercover for Gonzalo Reyes, the biggest cocaine exporter in South America. Cliff's fiancée, Janet Meade, is a reporter doing a story about Reyes. Reyes orders Cliff to kill Marcelo Villalba, who is running for his countries position as president, but Cliff can't bring himself to do it, because his assignment from the DEA is to work against Reyes. Reyes is afraid Villalba will put him out of business, and is afraid that Janet's story will do the same thing, so Reyes sends someone else after Villalba, and then Reyes has Janet kidnapped, and Cliff is the only one who can keep Reyes' plans from succeeding.
