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From a master storyteller, a novel ripped from the headlines and the heart of Africa.
THE PEACEMAKERS
by
Richard Herman
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The twin specters of starvation and genocide stalk the
southern Sudan when the tyrannical regime in Khartoum unleashes the Janjaweed,
horseback-mounted Baggara tribesmen, on the peaceful Dinka and Nuer
tribes. The prize is control of
the oil reserves lying beneath tribal lands, and a weary United Nations
responds with a half-hearted attempt riddled with corruption to rescue a
beleaguered people. The United States sends six aging Air Force C-130 Hercules
cargo aircraft and 165 personnel to support the UN peacekeepers and fly relief
into the heart of the war-torn land.
But age-old hatreds cannot be suppressed and the Janjaweed
cause one of the C-130s to crash, killing the crew and commander of the US
detachment.
The UN peacekeepers are withdrawing when the newly appointed
commander of the C-130 unit arrives.
His unit's morale is in the dirt and the situation chaotic. Appalled by the slaughter he witnesses,
he becomes a driven man, determined to save as many tribal Nuer and Dinka as he can. He makes an unlikely ally, the French
commander of the peacekeeping force who was born Senegalese. The two men are
military anachronisms, throwbacks to an earlier age. But both know how to
fight – one in the air, the other on the ground – and fight they will.
The situation spins out of control and becomes a battle of
personal survival where defeat will result in genocide.
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CALY'S ISLAND
Six geezers in six small sailboats, caught in the wildest adventure. Their own Odyssey - packed with the same monsters, mysterious women, and capricious gods who tormented Ulysses.
They have to find their way home . . . somehow.
They have a long way to go.
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A FAR JUSTICE
Gus Tyler, a retired Air Force F-15 pilot, stands before the Inter- national Criminal Court accused of war crimes committed on the infamous Highway of Death during the Gulf War of 1991.
The world is watching and he is a man going down, a sacrificial pawn, unless he can find justice in a far and distant land, the slaughterhouse of the Southern Sudan.
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