Ethnobotanist Wade Davis returned from Port-au-Prince with the ingredients for a zombie potion that made people appear dead. But this only completed half his mission — he needed the antidote. But no matter how much Davis studied, he couldn’t explain how one would work. At least, not scientifically. For that, he would need to infiltrate Haiti’s most dangerous secret societies… in search of spells.

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