In Manhattan, Craig Mellow is an upcoming writer who has written a very popular novel about his ancestors' struggles. Fleeing his country during its independence wars, Mellow returns to the newly named Zimbabwe and tries to reclaim his family farm. With the help of a local politician, he finds out that the government minister is the culprit of a massive ivory poaching around the farm territory. Mellow is framed and declared an enemy of the state. Escaping the Zimbabwe officials, Mellow travels the jungles of Botswana with American photographer Sally-Anne Jay. Together they undergo adventures along the way as Mellow tries to prove himself innocent. This last volume of the African thriller gives a splendid climax to the Ballantyne quadrilogy series by Wilbur Smith.
