Corbyn Farisi has just returned to Africa after training with the Office to take the fight to those terrorizing the people of Ethiopia: the fascist colonizers who call themselves the Sons of Italy and their foul leader, the Yellow Father. Farisi’s secret weapon in this final push is the mysterious and terrifying woman known to her victims as la Mandragora. The Mandrake is a specter the Italians dare only whisper of who employs the very methods she seeks to eliminate: abject terror, stomach-turning bloodshed, and calculated horror.