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Läkaren Henry Ohlsson måste bort. Efter en förnedrande TV-intervju, där han blivit både granskad och utskämd inför hela svenska folket, kan han inte stanna i landet en sekund till. Fylld av skam och självömkan tar han istället sin tillflykt till Centralafrikanska Republiken och en ödsligt belägen hjälpstation. I ny miljö, med nya arbetsuppgifter, gör han ett försök att få rätsida på sig själv och sitt liv igen. Men den instabila situationen i landet gör att tillvaron snart tar en oväntad vändning.

Of all the untamed places on the American frontier, the Rocky Mountains might be the most dangerous and the least welcoming. But that's where young Lieutenant Phillip Pickforth must go. He is ordered to lead a detachment from distant Fort Leavenworth to investigate reports of a vicious massacre. Reports blame the Shoshones, and the alleged ringleader of the slaughter is...Zachary King, halfbreed son of famed mountain man Nate King.

In Montana Territory, one name above all others strikes fear and hatred in the hearts of the Crow Indians - John Jackson, better known these days as Liver-Eating Jackson. Consumed by grief and rage, the mountain man has brutally killed 10 braves so far in his one-man war of vengeance against the Crow, who murdered his beloved wife. Smoke Jensen knows Jackson by another name - "friend". He's not sure to what extent Jackson's exploits are true - devastating loss and frontier savagery have certainly driven lesser men mad.

Cécile, a stylish 47-year-old, has spent the weekend visiting her parents in a provincial town southeast of Paris. By early Monday morning, she's exhausted. These trips back home are always stressful, and she settles into a train compartment with an empty seat beside her. But it's soon occupied by a man she instantly recognizes: Philippe Leduc, with whom she had a passionate affair that ended in her brutal humiliation 30 years ago. In the fraught hour and a half that ensues, their express train hurtles toward the French capital.

Was ist das Rätsel von Geheimbünden und Bruderschaften? Wieso existieren diese diskreten Organisationen seit Jahrhunderten? Was ist der Gewinn, den ein jedes Mitglied geboten bekommt? Die Antwort ist simpel und dennoch genial. Aber hat nicht alles im Leben auch seinen Preis?! Und was geschieht, wenn man sich von seinen Brüdern abwendet und zum Verräter wird? Wer redet, verrät seine Komplizen, wer schweigt, verrät sich selbst. Wir müssen selbst entscheiden!