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Mississippi charmer Abner Mason is a professional gambler and a regular on the Delta Jack, a luxurious riverboat. But luck hasn't exactly been going Mason's way. After a disastrous loss at the tables, he owes an impossible debt to the most powerful man on the ship: mysterious, ruthless Cam Greeley. And Greeley's willing to do whatever it takes to get his fortune back - even threaten Mason's life. Now Mason has a single night to raise all the funds to pay off his debt by completing whatever ominous jobs Greeley has waiting for him. He just has to make it through alive....

Their friendship started with a schoolyard tussle. Now the need for revenge is what binds Luke Croft and Red Connover together. When Luke taught himself how to fire a Colt, he never imagined he'd turn into a gunman. But when his stepfather's dodgy business dealings turn his life upside down, Luke asks Red to help him destroy the man who murdered his kin. The road to vengeance is long and hard, and the two friends who are barely out of boyhood will need all the help they can get if they want to catch a cold-blooded killer.

È il gennaio del 2020 quando Ralph Core vola in Zimbabwe per raccogliere materiale per il suo nuovo libro. Vuole scrivere della diga di Kariba, un’opera colossale e avveniristica che sbarra il fiume Zambesi e dal 1960, grazie al lavoro ingegneristico di alcune imprese italiane, fornisce energia idroelettrica al paese centrafricano e a quelli vicini. I lavori, che all’epoca avevano costretto 70.000 indigeni Tonga ad abbandonare tra tensioni e rivolte le fertili rive dello Zambesi e della Gwembe Valley, erano stati però considerati non solo un’opportunità ma una ferita inferta a Nyaminyami, il dio del fiume.