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Helmand 2004: Afghanistan's most lawless province where nearly 90 per cent of the world's opium is grown. Gangsters and warlords battle for supremacy in the lucrative trade territories well-known and fiercely contested. Well Diggers an Anglo-Dutch NGO helping the farming community comes under attack. One man is dead and another man is missing - suspected kidnapped so head of security Ginger Jameson calls in his old friend Alasdair 'Mac' MacKenzie to help. But when the expected ransom demand fails to materialise rumours blossom creating a web of deceit and a multitude of false leads. Embarking on a rescue mission into the no-go reaches of southern Helmand might look like a major scoop to Mac's girlfriend investigative reporter Baz Khan but it puts the whole team in danger. And if they don't find him soon they won’t find him at all. . .