Shadow's father, a wise mature Omar Sheriff look alike, looking for younger love, to save him from a beauty who has repressed him for many years'......can you start an adventure for him, to Young for retirement, where would he fit into the story, with the caviler of horses' ranging towards the outskirts of the city........

Wishes to be reunited with Shadow, after years of isolation, in the hands of the captives'.......

Being caught up in a web of a beautiful trap, layed by the enemy of the state, after looking and trying to locate the secret search for the book, to establish its rightful place, in the city of Abdon.

Shadow, unaware of the location of his father, or even if his father was alive at all.

I thinks that's right, if my memory of the facts of the Maps of Ryon are correct...