ASIN: B00KUIEBRK
Publisher: Sterling & Stone
Pages: 412
Slavery. Brutality. A father’s love.By the spring of 2001, two million Sudanese tribal people had been systematically annihilated by their radical Muslim government for refusing to renounce their Christian faith. But that’s not why American human rights photojournalist Ron Wolfson is risking his life there. He’s investigating whispered reports of women and children in chains, more than 300,000 of them, auctioned off to the highest bidder. One of those children is Akin, the eleven-year-old daughter of Idris Apot. Snatched by the Murahaleen raiders who butchered her village, the little Dinka girl is jammed into a boxcar with other kidnapped children and transported 500 miles north to the slave market. Idris goes after her—on foot!—and forms an unlikely alliance with the American journalist. Together, Ron and Idris face the savage retaliation of a ruthless Arab slave trader who has even ...
