By the author of The African Journals of Petros Amm and Two Days in Tehran, this gripping African adventure is set in 1930s Southern Rhodesia. Gold is found on a farm but the all powerful British South Africa Company holds the mineral rights and its intervention could mean ruin for the discoverers. The farmer and his partner, Daniel Walker, decide to conceal the find and smuggle the gold to South Africa. The initial effort is successful but the district's senior police officer is determined to prevent the smuggling to the extent that it becomes an all consuming obsession. Can they thwart the policeman or will the conflict end up in death and disaster for all