In the second Rick Robichaud adventure, Rick, his wife, Zora, and their child, Bronwyn, find themselves in the eye of a storm of events that plays out in the forests, fields and sea coasts of Digby County, Nova Scotia; in board rooms in Russia and situation rooms at NATO; and in piracy on the high seas. It probes the nature of greed and hubris, contrasts these with friendship and mutual care, and gives the last word to Walt Whitman.