Madman’s Drum is Ward’s second wordless novel. It tells of a slaver whose murder of an African and theft of a magic drum commences a chain of retribution. The drum’s curse brings death, heartbreak, and madness to the man, his wife, his son, and his son’s wife and daughters. It is a powerful story of a father’s sins working out their evil upon the guilty and innocent alike into the third generation. If the original sin was the immoral trade in human beings, then where and when will the curse end?