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Tung Umolomo is an action adventure set in South Africa with the twists found in a good mystery. The South African heat cooks more than the landscape as ex-FBI agent David Hemingway and Peace Corps Doctor Alcina Danvers struggle against ignorance, superstition and political corruption to stop Russian Mafia leader Ivan Vyachenkov from robbing the Xhosa people of their pride, their land and their natural resources. Local legends, especially the tribal icon of good represented by the ever present Eagle Owl, play heavily in the lives of all the participants.
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The Piaculum is at once hauntingly dark yet deeply spiritual. Set in the distant future, the story takes place on a desert landscape where a group of Christians called the Mone and a blood worshiping cult known as the Kathe are ensnared in religious tension. The Kathe believe that salvation can only be achieved by drinking blood from men born with a rare skin condition known as the white-mark. The novel follows the life of Cearl, a man with the white-mark born to a group of poor Mone farmers. Cearl has a good life with a wife and two children he deeply loves, but he finds himself consumed by memories of being tortured by the Kathe as a child, as well as an overwhelming feeling that his god wants something from him. When a group of Kathe com... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Love and The Power is a spellbinding story about two friends, their families, lovers and conscience in the secret world where business meets organized crime. John Forbes manages through criminal enterprises to acquire Higgins Investment in the City of London. Here he becomes aware of Erick Elgberg, who has the experience John lacks. He also acquires a mistress, the free spirited artist Mona Hobson. When John and Catherine's son dies their marriage falls apart. Devastated, John moves to a remote lavender farm in France. Here he meets and falls in love with the down-to-earth Cecilia, whom he later marries. Elgberg's 'group of groups' becomes a powerful reality. The police gather enough evidence to arrest Erick Elgberg. It becomes a public cir... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Pedophilia has become America’s dirty little secret. No one wants to talk about it and pedophiles are literally getting away with murder. The authorities can’t catch them, the courts are too soft on them, and no one is doing anything about it. No one, that is, except Dan Forester. After his son is molested and murdered, Dan wages a one-man war on pedophilia, all the while playing cat and mouse with the FBI and his own conscience. It is an exhilarating story of one man’s tragedy and triumph with more twists and turns than an L.A. freeway.
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