It must have been Otieno's idea of a joke. Too many offended egos back at headquarters, too many influential people unhappy with him in Nairobi. And yet, with his record, he was almost impossible to dismiss. So Otieno had sent Mollel straight to Hell.

Detective Mollel might have solved the case, but he disturbed the balance of power in Nairobi and now he's been rewarded with a reassignment--to a beaten-up town on the edge of Hell's Gate National Park. Mollel figures his career just took a permanent nosedive: his colleagues never took kindly to having a former Maasai...