Baden-Powell's Beads: London: Book Two: Beads Series

In 1888, Captain Baden-Powell of the British army discovers a strand of Zulu beads on the battlefield of South Africa. Thirty years later in England, he founds the Boy Scout movement and gives one bead to each of his newly trained Scoutmasters; the origin of the Wood Badge, a coveted award still today. In 2005, a young orthopedic resident in Memphis is given one of these beads by a dying patient with the admonition to "find the others." Soon, the doctor is pursued through the city by a band...