Short Summary:

When an archaeologist goes missing in the field, Kennet Forbes volunteers to find his colleague.  Forbes, teacher at Thunder Bay University, finds himself embroiled in violence, murder, and mystery.  Forbes, former high-profile newsman on national TV, rediscovers the wilds north of Lake Superior.  In the process he awakens his own demons.

Longer Summary:

Alfred Vanderhorst, archaeologist, is convinced that the Beardmore Viking relics are genuine, not pawns in a hoax.  It is his personal mission to prove they once did repose on an old mining claim near Lake Nipigon. 

When Vanderhorst fails to report in, Kennet Forbes is enlisted to find his missing colleague.  Forbes, teacher at Thunder Bay University, soon finds himself embroiled in violence, murder, and mystery.

Forbes, one-time war correspondent and former news man on national TV, rediscovers his old stomping grounds.  He returns to the wilds north of Lake Superior, where he grew up.

Forbes finds himself prowling a terrain full of prospecting trenches and mines with collapsing pillars.  He finds more than he bargained for, including a couple of cold cases that nobody had known were cold, let alone cases.

Forbes, amateur sleuth, works with the detectives of the Ontario Provincial Police, who can do things and go places he can't, and can keep the local crime family honest.

Just when the natural order of the universe appears to have been restored, Kennet is saddled with an historical mystery, which the reader resolves.