He's the courier to the super rich, the most reliable delivery man on Earth. Yet his clients have never met him. They don't know his name. All they know is he gets the job done, no matter how daunting and dire the circumstances.

Legend has it the Courier has capabilities beyond those of a normal human being. Are the stories true, or just fabrications created to justify his fees?

When a thief steals a package from him, the Courier suffers his first failure. The stakes are enormous - its contents may decide the outcome of a brutal war. The thief is no stranger to him - she's his former soulmate, a woman long given up for dead. To recover the package, the Courier will use all his skills, and confront a past he longs to forget.