He wakes to a strange new world, transported at the moment of death by some unseen agency. The gunslinger, touched by the gods and doomed for the part he must play in their games, is caught up in the throes of a failed rebellion. Captured and imprisoned for 40 years, he emerges from his prison cell a new-made man; a creature of shadow and strife, driven by the whispers of dark forces, still wearing the shackles at his wrists-a potent reminder of his incarceration.