Martin Smith has lived for more than six centuries and has kept his immortality a secret all through the bubonic plague, on the ships that colonized America, in Molire's theater, the Japan of the samurais, and Nazi Germany. But now someone has discovered his secret and is determined to hunt him down. Martin Smith ha vivido ms de seis siglos y ha recorrido el mundo entero disimulando su inmortalidad, entre la desolacin de la peste medieval, en los barcos que colonizaron Amrica, en el teatro de Molire, en el Japn de los samuris o en la Alemania nazi. Pero ahora hay alguien que conoce su secreto y se ha propuesto darle caza.