Miami, Florida. April 8th, 1989. Beneath the guise of palm trees and spring breeze, sinister forces are at work. A call is placed from a rust-covered payphone in the small hours of the morning to an apartment complex in Downtown Miami, along the coastline. Babysitter. East 7th Street. Long talk. Be discreet. At approximately 5:37 p.m. the same day, police respond to a distress call and discover the bodies of six Russian mob pawns. They are brutally disfigured and twisted beyond recognition, and police uncover no lead to a suspect. The state of already extremely tense Russo-American relations changes for the worse, as Miami spirals into panic.