Bright-eyed child prodigy Gavin loses his family and pursues a hazy path of vengeance that leads him instead to unwittingly serve his family’s killers............
Rene Roccard fails to assassinate Underground leader Ruben Um in New York; so he pursues him to Cameroon, trailed by American journalist Clement Coulther.
Gavin loses his innocence in a Rene-led campaign by the Franco-Cameroonian army against the Ruben-inspired rebellion that traps his family and installs a puppet president in newly independent Cameroon.
When Clement saves Gavin’s life from Rene's hands and then evacuates his family from Cameroon with American diplomat Peter Atkins' assistance, he knows he is leaving behind an inferno a step from exploding.
Cameroon ceases to inspire Gavin during his studies in Europe; that is until a regime change rekindles his dreams of his native land.
He returns home and inadvertently becomes an agent for the Cameroonian intelligence, a covert arm of the new Pablo-Nero regime that killed his dissident cousin. Unknown to everybody, Gavin confronts his ghosts to become human again. Something more than revenge is at stake here as he thwarts the efforts of the regime and its French backers to eliminate the heads of the nascent opposition in an operation code-named “Operation Clean Sweep”. But is the act of a double agent enough penance for his corrupted soul?
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