Private detective Charlie Parker has partly dealt with the ghosts of the past and accepted a new order, albeit reluctantly. He will have to find out what dark deeds a veteran of the Iraq campaign who recently returned to his homeland is doing. The order came from the father of another veteran - the old man hopes that this will shed light on the very strange death of his son returning from the war. The soldiers obviously brought something from Iraq. But what? Just contraband or something more? Trying to get an answer, the detective gets into a fight with two artifact hunters. Both hunters are connected to some ancient forces. One of them is his old acquaintance, and the second...