An ex-con, just released from jail, returns home only to become immediately embroiled in a robbery. A tenacious FBI agent hounds him every step of the way.

Whatever tycoon R.C. Mallon wants, he takes. Obsessed with money and power, he crushes all who stand in his way. But now, the woman who was once the object of his desire has dared take away the most precious of all Mallon's possessions, his ten-year-old son — the heir to his corrupt and violent empire. And all hell has been let loose.