THE BORDER BETWEEN MAINE AND CANADA IS POROUS. ANYTHING CAN BE SMUGGLED ACROSS IT: DRUGS, CASH, WEAPONS, PEOPLE.Now a group of disenchanted former soldiers has begun its own smuggling operation, and their cargo is stranger and more terrifying than anyone can imagine.Anyone, that is, except private detective Charlie Parker, who has his own intimate knowledge of the darkness in men's hearts. Brought in to investigate an apparent suicide, Parker discovers an epidemic of deaths among the former combatants.And that their actions have attracted the attention of the reclusive Herod, a man with a teste for the strange. Where Herod goes, so too does the shadowy figure that he calls the Captain. To defeat them, Parker must form an uneasy alliance with a man he fears more that any other...