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Author
Series
John Wells novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
Four friends, recent college graduates, travel to Kenya to work at a refugee camp for Somalis. Two men, two women, each with their own reasons for being there. But after twelve weeks, they're ready for a break and pile into a Land Cruiser for an adventure. Hijacked by bandits, they wake up in a hut, hooded, bound, no food or water. Hostages. As a personal favor John Wells is asked to find them, but he does so reluctantly. East Africa isn't his usual...
Author
Publisher
Zaffre Publishing, an imprint of Bonnier Zaffre Ltd
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Flynn Patrick O'Flynn is an Irish-American poacher and conman who has spent the last few years taunting the military commander Herman Fleischer in the jungles of German East Africa. When young Sebastian Oldsmith joins O'Flynn as aide and apprentice, he's eager to follow in his footsteps. But as the world changes in the shadow of the Great War, Fleischer takes terrible action against the two men. Driven by revenge and fury, Oldsmith and O'Flynn join...
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
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5) Assegai
Author
Series
Publisher
Bonner Zaffre Ltd
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of the World War I, ex-soldier turned professional hunter Leon Courtney is recruited by his uncle Penrod Ballantyne, commander of the British forces in East Africa, to gather information on one of his clients, Count Otto von Meerbach, and soon finds himself left alone to frustrate von Meerbach's plan to wipe out the British forces in Africa.
6) Unholy land
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Lior Tirosh is a semi-successful author of pulp fiction, an inadvertent time traveler, and an ongoing source of disappointment to his father. Tirosh has returned to his homeland in East Africa. But Palestina--a Jewish state founded in the early 20th century--has grown dangerous. The government is building a vast border wall to keep out African refugees. Unrest in Ararat City is growing. And Tirosh's childhood friend, trying to deliver a warning,...
7) War cry
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
As a member of the remarkable Courtney family, Leon Courtney knows how quickly fortunes can be won and lost. Over the course of more than two centuries, generations of his family have risen and fallen with the tides of history. Leon, too, has experienced his own share of triumph and pain. In the wake of his beloved wife's death, the renowned big-game hunter is raising his young daughter, Saffron, alone in colonial Kenya. In the 1920s, the continent...
8) Strange gods
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"In early 20th century British East Africa, there are rules for the British and different ones for the Africans. Vera McIntosh, the daughter of Scottish missionaries, doesn't feel she belongs to either group; having grown up in Africa, she is not interested in being the well-bred Scottish woman her mother would like her to be. More than anything she dreams of seeing again the handsome police officer she's danced with. But more grisly circumstances...
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