<p>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.</p>