This isnt Hemingways Africa.
This is the Africa of the new millennium.
Violent. Drug-ridden. Corrupt.
Overpopulated and overrun with bandits and poachers.
Famine and war, AIDS and AK-47s.
Mogadishu veteran Mike McKay has returned to the Horn of Africa on unfinished businesssaving the rhino from the depredations of the shifta, the Somali marauders who plague Kenyas arid Northeast Frontier. Turning white hunter for an amoral powerbroker with a private army (including a trophy secretary as beautiful and deceptively deadly as a black mamba) isnt part of the deal. Hunting is illegal in Kenyaparticularly the kind these mercenaries are after. And when a ruthless Somali warlord intervenes, Mikes caught between the shifta, the law, the mercs, the desert, and his own past. Its a death struggle, for revenge, redemption, loveand to prove just who is the most...