Reapers

Frederick Ramsay

ISBN 10: 159058807X / ISBN 13: 9781590588079

Published by Sourcebooks Dez 2010, 2010

Neuware - The World Cup, which arrives in June, has ripple effects on all South Africa's neighbors. The arrival of soccer fans, team owners, sponsors, and world dignitaries makes southern Africa, particularly Botswana, ripe for all sorts of intrigue and illicit activities. The American Secretary of State will visit the Chobe. The North Koreans, the Okavango, Arabs, French, Chinese, and Russians are scattered among the various lodges and hotels in the country before, during and after the games. And all will be watching and waiting on the others.Orgonise Africa, derived from Wilhelm Reich's popularization of orgone energy and transmogrified by bad science and wishful thinking, is an effort by fanatics to push forward a plan to seed Africa with orgone, which they believe will purify the continent, rid it of drought, poverty, and HIV/AIDs.To the north, Patriarche, a silverback mountain gorilla, is forced to share his habitat with coltan miners led by General Le Grande, one of the Congo's many bloody war lords. The profits from the sale of coltan, so prized by electronics manufacturers, help fuel the seemingly endless civil wars that plague that poor country.Sanderson, the Game Ranger in the Chobe National Park, finds a body. Tracking down the murderer opens doors that lead her and Inspector Kgabo Modise first to evidence of local bribery, then to smuggling, and finally to what could well provoke an international incident, except for the shrewd action of Modise and Botswana's intelligence community. Seller Inventory # 9781590588079

Synopsis:

Every June, the World Cup brings soccer fans, team owners, sponsors, and world dignitaries to southern Africa, particularly Botswana. Americans, North Koreans, the Okavango, Arabs, French, Chinese, and Russians are scattered among various lodges and hotels in the country, all watching the games...and each other. To the north, Patriarche, a silverback mountain gorilla, is forced to share his habitat with coltan miners led by General Le Grande, one of the Congo's many bloody war lords. After Game Ranger Sanderson finds a body in the Chobe National Park, tracking the murderer leads her and Inspector Kgabo Modise to evidence of local bribery, then to smuggling, and finally to what could well provoke an international incident.... Frederick Ramsay was a member of the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. In 1971, he was ordained an Episcopal priest. Now retired from full-time ministry, he lives in Arizona with his wife and partner, Susan. www.frederickramsay.com

About the Author: Frederick Ramsay was raised on the east coast and attended graduate school in Chicago. He was a writer of mysteries set in Virginia, (the Ike Schwartz Mysteries) Botswana Mystery series, Jerusalem Mystery series and stand-alones (Impulse, Judas: The Gospel of Betrayal). He was a retired Episcopal Priest, Academic, and author.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Reapers
Publisher: Sourcebooks Dez 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Taschenbuch
Condition: Neu