Julia is an American medical doctor fleeing her own privileged
background to find a new life delivering health care to African
villages, where her skills can make a difference. Carl is also an
American, whose very different experiences as a black man in the United
States have driven him into exile in West Africa, where he is an
international NGO expat. The two come together as colleagues (and then
more) as Liberia is gripped in a brutal civil war. Child soldiers kidnap
Julia on a remote jungle road, and Carl is evacuated against his will by
U.S. Marines. Back in the United States he finds Julia's mentor, Levin,
a Rhode Island MD whose Sixties idealism has been hijacked by history.
Then they meet the thief. Then they meet the smuggler. And the dangerous
work of finding and rescuing Julia begins.
An unforgettable thriller grounded in real events.