The Talisman introduces the brothers’ women, their wives and their children, all of them inexplicably bound by ghosts from the past. The murder of their’ father, Freedom Stubbs, the Champion fighter, constantly draws them back to their Romany origins … they have his blood in their veins, and his death on their consciences. They have inherited the Romany second sight and, as they reach a phenomenally high pinnacle of both material wealth and power, attained deviously and violently, one of them must now pay the debt. One must pay at last for the murder. It is the law of the Romanies, be it sons or daughters, wives or mothers, fathers or brothers, a debt must be paid. A tear for a tear, a heart for a heart, blood to blood, soul to soul …