by Jerry Johnson (Author)
An African adventure like no other. At the start of the 20th century the British East Africa Protectorate is a beautiful but savage country. A veneer of civilization overlays a prehistoric land where a man stays alive "by dint of his courage, daring, cunning, and ferocity," and can make a fortune smuggling ivory, gold and slaves from the jungles of the Congo to the black markets in Zanzibar. Two American hunters, Kincaid and Gunner, are tossed back a hundred years in time and find themselves lost on East Africa's Athi Plain where mischance - or great good fortune - makes them masters of a smugglers' caravan on trek from the shores of Lake Victoria to the Uganda Railway at Nairobi, laden with 20,000 worth ($2.5 million) of illicit ivory, gold, and slaves. To free the seventy natives held as slaves, they must survive assaults by askari military police, Arab slavers from Oman, Kavirondo tribal warriors, hired thugs in the streets of Mombasa, a lion's mauling, and the mysterious wiles of a fierce and beautiful Baluba woman.
Author Biography
Novelist and creative non-fiction writer Jerry Johnson lives in the North Country of the upper Midwest. In addition to his historical novel, 'Ivory and Gold - A Safari into the Sandhills and across the Athi Plain, ' he is the author of 'Hunting Birds - The Lives and Legends of the Pine County Rod, Gun, Dog and Social Club.' He has written four collections of essays and short stories: 'Crazy Old Coot, ' 'Old Coots Never Forget, ' 'Coot Stews' and 'A Limit of Coot.' His blog, 'Dispatches from a Northern Town, ' features stories about bird hunting, bird dogs, and bird guns; memoirs, social and political commentary, and other "observations of an old curmudgeon." A former newspaper reporter, photographer, editor, columnist, and college public relations director, Johnson is retired and lives with his wife Patti live in a 130-year-old log house on the small farm they manage for wildlife habitat. He hunts, fishes, and shoots clay target games with a group of friends that call themselves the Over the Hill G