In 1382, in the Cloud Forests, a drug merchant is murdered in his sleep in the town of Tingo. Eyewitnesses swear that his young wife has stabbed him so that she could run away with her young lover. I am Merbal, the Seeker, it is my job to investigate all High Crimes in the Chachapoya (Warriors of the Clouds) nation...
“Your murder victim was not an innocent, naive woman. She was on our terrorist watch list. The fact that she escaped from Basra and lived a normal life in London buggers belief, but she was planted here by a foreign government to wreck the Taliban peace negotiations, William.” That simple statement triggers alarm bell...