All we know about zombies is a lie. Wade Davis, a young ethnobotanist, arrives in Haiti in the early 80s of the XX century, having received an assignment from his supervisor: to get and take out for further pharmacological research a drug through which zombification is carried out. The circumstances revealed in the book related to this sinister practice, meetings and conversations with people, zombified, poison and dope sorcerers, descriptions of Haiti's history, scientific studies in libraries and laboratories, horse racing with taunton macuts, night coffin, - all this is done by "Snake and Rainbow" - and this is not anyhow and the protagonists of the cosmogonic myth of the vodun (voodoo) cult are an outstanding example of adventure anthropology.