Simon Leonidovich delivers. No matter how big or small or dangerous, he’s the man who can put it on your doorstep. He’s a high-tech, international courier of “packages” that range from priceless works of art, to human organs and nuclear materials. Perhaps that’s why the “easy job” catches him so off guard, turning his life into a nightmare run for survival.

The assignment sounded simple enough: to transfer a packet of computer disks between a research laboratory in Sweden and a pharmaceutical company in LaJolla, California. What Simon doesn’t know is that 33 million lives hang in the balance. The disks contain evidence of a biological catastrophe, the slow and irreversible degradation of liver tissue by Mira-loss, a popular weight-loss drug.

The company, suddenly aware of its exposure, hires Eth Jäger, The Hunter, to recover the disks. The story pits these two men, Eth Jäger and Simon Leonidovich, two modern-day technocrats, in an international game of cat and mouse.