The Spirit with the Hatchet in order to foil a war between the Indians and the military, embarks with Cico for a dangerous journey across the lake which due to a hurricane sees them shipwrecked on a mysterious island where one of the deadliest enemies they have ever had to face awaits them...
It is the first meeting between Zagor and Hellingen.
Once Hellingen has been defeated, Zagor and Cico, on their way back to Darkwood, come across an inn run by two dangerous individuals against whom they will have to resort to every cunning in the hope of making it out alive...
