John Lee "is hired to rescue a man from the infamous La Modelo Prison in Bogota, Columbia. The facility is a hellhole, with 11,000 inmates split between left-wing rebels on one side and right-wing government supporters on the other, and easy access to guns, and even grenades.
Lee is told that the man has been wrongly convicted, and needs to be rescued before one side or another kills him. However, when Lee arrives in Columbia with his team, he learns that the man is actually Oscar Rodriguez Montoya, a leading cartel drug lord, and he refuses to go ahead with the job. The cartel won't take no for an answer, however, and take steps to force his hand."