Jack Fitzgerald has been an Auckland cop since the unsolved disappearances of his wife and his daughter. When news of his suicide reaches his old friend Paul Osborne in Australia, Osborne wastes no time: he flies direct to New Zealand in search of the truth, convinced that Jack's death could not have been suicide. An expert in Maori culture, Osborne retraces his dead friend's steps into a world of occult mystery and discovers an entire country thirsting for bloody revenge.