Tracker is known for his skills as a hunter : "He has a nose", people say. Hired to find a mysterious boy who disappeared, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group assembled to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as the Leopard. As Tracker follows the boy's scent, he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them.
As he fights for survival, Tracker starts to wonder : Who, really, is this boy ? Why has he been missing for so long ? And perhaps most important : Who is telling the truth, and who is lying ?
