Book description
The World Cup, which arrives in June, has ripple effects on all South
Africa's neighbors. The arrival of soccer fans, team owners, sponsors,
and world dignitaries makes southern Africa, particularly Botswana, ripe
for all sorts of intrigue and illicit activities. The American Secretary
of State will visit the Chobe. The North Koreans, the Okavango, Arabs,
French, Chinese, and Russians are scattered among the various lodges and
hotels in the country before, during and after the games. And all will
be watching and waiting on the others. Orgonise Africa, derived from
Wilhelm Reich's popularization of orgone energy and transmogrified by
bad science and wishful thinking, is an effort by fanatics to push
forward a plan to seed Africa with orgone, which they believe will
purify the continent, rid it of drought, poverty, and HIV/AIDs. To the
north, “Patriarche,” a silverback mountain gorilla, is forced to share
his habitat with coltan miners led by General Le Grande, one of the
Congo's many bloody war lords. The profits from the sale of coltan, so
prized by electronics manufacturers, help fuel the seemingly endless
civil wars that plague that poor country. Sanderson, the Game Ranger in
the Chobe National Park, finds a body. Tracking down the murderer opens
doors that lead her and Inspector Kgabo Modise first to evidence of
local bribery, then to smuggling, and finally to what could well provoke
an international incident, except for the shrewd action of Modise and
Botswana's intelligence community. Dr. Frederick Ramsay was born in
Baltimore, Maryland. He received his doctorate from the University of
Illinois-Westside Medical Campus. After a stint in the Army, he joined
the faculty of the University of Maryland, School of Medicine, teaching
Anatomy, Embryology and Histology; engaged in research and also served
as an Associate Dean. During this time he also pursued studies in
theology and in 1971 was ordained an Episcopal priest. He is the author
of several scientific and general articles, tracts, theses, and
co-author of The Baltimore Declaration. He is an accomplished public
speaker and once hosted a television spot, Prognosis, on the evening
news for WMAR-TV, Baltimore. He is also an iconographer with works
displayed around the world. He lives in Surprise, Arizona with his wife
and partner, Susan.
