Book description
People have been disappearing in what the explorer Stanley called the
black heart of Africa - the impenetrable forests of northern Congo. But
when a brilliant young English doctor vanishes, alarm bells really start
to ring. Intelligence chief Jack Milton sends a message to his godson
Luca Matthews (
The Forbidden Temple
hero) in the Himalayas asking him to go to Africa and find Joshua.
Reluctantly Luca obeys, but he is no longer the man he once was,
traumatised by his part in the death of his best friend, his legendary
climbing nerve shot to pieces. Meanwhile in Africa, mining
troubleshooter and brilliant flying pilot, Beatrice (Bear) Makuru, also
wants to brave the northern wilderness. Coltan is the mineral without
which no mobile phone or computer would work. Explosions have been
wrecking coltan mines. Bear needs to find out why. Her journey with Luca
to Africa's black heart is the beginning of an utterly terrifying
sequence of events, uncovering a secret so simple yet so startling that
it could rock the foundations of the civilised world. Patrick Woodhead
is a young professional climber, who also runs White Desert, a company
which arranges adventure expeditions to the Antarctic. When he is not in
Antarctica, he divides his time between South Africa, the birthplace of
his wife, and London.
