Mark J Cotterell
ASIN: B00CI5RJCW
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 243
From the baffling complexity of modern Zimbabwe comes this story of a struggle between greed and generosity. The characters which cross the stage each have their personal aspirations: the Cambridge-educated black contestant for the presidential position with his hopes of rebuilding his homeland - the Agri-Liberators causing mayhem on the farms - the Mafia-linked thug who wants to subvert the election process, all interacting in a web of overlapping threads. The locale moves between Zimbabwe, the U.S. and China, as a couple of external scientific developments impact the story. A romance between members of two culturally-different families adds complications when there is an assassination. Mark Cotterell has travelled extensively in the course of his career, and he and his family have lived in several countries, where they have sought to identify with the local cultures wherever possible. ...