Western contractors working for the same company, sent without passports to a nation recovering from ten years of civil war. Together, operating under pseudonyms they are tasked with building a highway that connects the country's far-flung villages with the capital. From the best-selling author of The Circle, a spare, powerful story of two men in a dangerous and largely lawless country. A suspenseful and existentially frightening story of two foreigners' role in a nation's fragile peace.