An American journalist is killed in Tajikistan while investigating the international heroin trade. Steve Conley, a Boston-based reporter from the same newspaper, is sent out to re-trace his assignment and find out why. Conley's odyssey propels him through Paris, Prague and beyond, and along the way, against his better judgment, he becomes entwined with the beautiful young widow of his dead colleague. What he's least prepared to handle, though, is what he discovers at the endpoint... Also by Eric Almeida: Minsk Rises Crimean Seas, Kiev Skies