A disillusioned, yet still idealistic American scientist-adventurer-revolutionary is pitted against the Devil Incarnate in the form of a powerful British Industrialist.  The duel between ‘father’ (General Lord Wentworth) and ‘son’ (Charlie O’Brien) begins in the trenches of The Great War in Europe.  It  becomes a winner-take-all manhunt continuing in New York, then Texas, and finally in the middle of the last major Indian revolt in North American history South of the Rio Grande, the fate of humanity in the balance.   

Upon reaching manhood in a boring mid-West town with no prospects for anything except comfortable mediocrity, Charlie O’Brien, a restless American expatriate, made a deal with British Industrialist Lord (and General) Wentworth for money and power to save to world.  Charlie instantly became a world famous scientist, politician and revolutionary.  He also spent several years with the highly spiritual Yaqui Indians, their Shaman and a very special Native nurse practitioner, Diana, who understood his mind and loved his heart.

Charlie fought for the underdog in countless revolutions for the good of humanity until he found himself in the middle of the Great War in Europe. Only then does he see that the O’Brien inventions meant to improve the human condition are being used to kill and maim millions.  Only then does he find out that the deal was too good to be true.  Only then does Charlie see that Lord Wentworth is the devil incarnate and that he has been groomed to be Satan’ favorite henchman.

By 1916, Charlie wants out, no matter what he cost.  The most highly decorated soldier of the Allied Army, now a ‘disgraceful’ deserter, seeks one thing---to return to Sonora, Mexico, the haven created by Yaqui mystics and the warmth of his old flame Diana, his only equal in intensity and intellect.

The problem---the pilgrimage back home takes nearly a decade, blocked by Charlie’s getting involved with other revolutions, other down-trodden underdogs,.  Then there is that love affair with Wentworth’s daughter, Emma, a sweet socialite who wants to be a social revolutionary and follow the dashing rebel deserter despite her father’ wrath against her, and Charlie, when he heads down to Sonora---alone.

En route, Charlie finds himself hunted by the law, which is owned by Wentworth, and attached to idealistic drifters who have no idea about the ultimate price of being a revolutionary.  Or the ‘curse’ that anyone close to Charlie winds up dead, very quickly, while Charlie ends up walking away from the fight at hand without a scratch. 

Aided by a Yaqui Shaman he can feel, but can’t see, Charlie makes his way---alone---across the rugged, sunbaked Sonoran desert and Bacettette mountains that help ‘protect’ the Yaqui from Yankee, and Mexican, invaders.  When the Soul-cleansed, re-born American ex-patriot finally gets ‘home’ to the Yaqui valley that had sustained him between revolutions, he finds a bitter Diana and a half-breed son, Carlos, carrying half of his genes, some for bitterness, some for trouble.  Charlie’s arrival in the Yaqui valley comes, co-incidentally, at a time when tensions between the Mexican Army and the Yaqui Indians (highly Spiritual and Rebellious, yet more Christian then the Pope) are escalating---fast.

The manhunt is vicious.  Wentworth takes no prisoners, particularly when it comes to people Charlie gets close to, most particularly Diana, Carlos and even Emma, who finds her way into Yaqui Country on her own terms and by her own means.  The final showdown comes when Wentworth manipulates the Mexican government into attacking the defiant, yet peace-loving and Mystically Christian Yaqui nation.   Charlie and Wentworth have their final duel in the ‘huya aniya’, the Yaqui parallel universe ‘dream world’ which influences all human ‘reality’. 

With the help of his Yaqui Shaman, Charlie merges Spiritual wisdom and human tenacity, and the ultimate tools of the Revolutionary …compassion and self-sacrifice.  Man (Charlie) ‘deposesses’ the devil (Lord Wentworth), saving the Yaqui, preventing another Dark Age from descending on the World and resurrecting the newly-found family Charlie presumed were dead in the Wentworth-backed massacre after the peace treaty was signed. 

HISTORICAL NOTE: History records that for three days in 1926, several thousand Yaqui Indians kidnapped Mexican President Obregon, demanding land and liberty promised to them ten years earlier.   To this day, NO historian knows exactly what happened afterwards, who was at the center of the massacre of Yaqui by Federales after the treaty was signed, and how the remaining Indians were able to win a three-year war of against the entire force of the Mexican Army.