Ted Leighton

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.

Rick Robichaud abandoned science to stay home and support his wife's career as a veterinarian near the village of Bear River, Nova Scotia, where old ways and new, fair play and foul, generosity and crime weave threads of joy and hatred, contentment and murder. Robichaud must untangle the threads to reveal startling truths, uncertain justice and the enduring power of friendship.