After his own daughter was killed in Panama in 1994, former CIA agent Calvin Dexter became a private 'specialist' in cases which wouldn't reach justice trough the regular legal channels. Two years later he accepts to find Richard 'Ricky' Edmunds for his pa, influential rich businessman Stephen Edmonds. Ricky for a private Canadian war victims charity in Bosnia and went missing. Dexter discovers Ricky was beaten to pulp and drowned for no other crime then helping street boys from the other side by Zoran Zilic and his Serbian paramilitary 'order'. He offers Steven to 'finish the job' as such war criminals don't go to trial. But deputy CIA director Paul Devereaux cares only for a nuclear arms project he wants to use Zilic for. So CIA troubleshooter Frank McBride is ordered to protect him and handle Dexter.
Acting
Sam Elliott's world-weary gravitas carries every scene.
Writing
Forsyth adaptation with actual moral complexity for TV.
Director
Robert Markowitz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Frederick Forsyth's 2003 novel, reflecting post-9/11 anxieties about rogue CIA operations and Balkan war crimes accountability.
Shot in South Africa doubling for multiple countries—notice how the 'Bosnian' locations all have suspiciously similar vegetation.
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