Benjamin January is forced to travel to Haiti to seek his family's
lost treasure, in order to save everything he holds dear
When Jefferson Vitrack - the white half-brother of Benjamin January's
wife - turns up on January's doorstep in the summer of 1838 claiming he
has discovered a clue to the whereabouts of the family's lost treasure,
January has no hesitation about refusing to help look for it. For the
treasure lies in Haiti, the island that was once France's most
profitable colony - until the blood-chilling repression practiced there
by the whites upon their slaves triggered a savage rebellion. The
world's only Black Republic still looks with murderous mistrust upon any
strangers who might set foot there, and January is in no hurry to go.
But when Vitrack is murdered, and attempts are made on January's wife
and himself, he understands that he has no choice. He must seek the
treasure himself, to draw the unknown killers into the open, a bloody
trail that leads first to Cuba, then to Haiti, and finally to the secret
that lies buried with the accursed gold.