A New York homicide detective is cursed with immortality.

A Dutch soldier in the 1600s saves the life of a native woman and is granted the power of eternal youth in return. In the 2000s he is a police detective in New York City, and after 400 years he knows just about everything about the way the criminal mind works.—Ron Kerrigan <[email protected]>

In the 1600s the Dutch take over Manhattan Island and during a massacre of native people, John Amsterdam (as he becomes known) saves a woman's life and is wounded in the act. She uses her power as a shaman to heal him, and she also bestows on him the power of eternal youth and immortality--at least until he meets his true love and marries her. At this point he starts to age normally and will definitely die. In modern New York, John is a police detective who has a few people close to him who know his secret (old friends, literally) and tends to run into people who think they remember him from their own pasts.—Ron Kerrigan <[email protected]>