Together with Chico and Trampi, Zagor helps Pickens free his wife, and eventually clashes with the kidnappers, where he meets the titular Mr. Smith, a strange man who is in fact the real reason for all this complication.
The dark shadow of the Eagle King looms over the little tribe of Munsee Indians! And while the Miwok chief fears for the life of his abducted son Bijeli Jelen, Zagor and Chico embark on a rescue operation...
The Lizard Gang is in an Indian village in the Red Hook Valley and, after killing the old chief Towaka, they go to a sacred Indian cave, thinking there is gold in it. But in the cave they are attacked by a being that the Indians worship as a dark deity...