Poet, sailor and expert on a kind of duck, George Devis is visiting his sister and her country singer boyfriend on their refugee project in famine-struck Ethiopia. As he leaves for England with their two small sons, armed bandits attack the settlement and the couple are murdered. As Devis digs beneath the surface of events, he discovers that there is more to the murders than random violence. He has found a chain of hypocrisy and dirty dealing that stretches all the way across the Atlantic into the holiday homes and boatyards of Maine....
