The year1912 The place East Africa The action ivory-poaching deep in the German-occupied delta of the steaming Rufiji river Flynn, elephant-hunter and hounder of Germans, likes to enjoy the spoils of his sport without too much effort - and the arrival of rich young Sebastian Oldsmith is a windfall he cannot resist Sebastian is rapidly plunged into not merely an ivory-hunt, but a murderous game of hide-and-seek with Flynn's enemy, the gross German Commissioner, Herman Fleischer