Davis Bunn Strikes Gold Once Again!
Marc Royce stares down from the helicopter on the Rift Valley slashing
across Africa like a scar. Tribal feuds, drought, and dislocation have
left their devastation. And he sees a new wound--a once-dormant volcano
oozing molten lava across the dry landscape--and clouds of ash obscure
his vision. His undercover assignment is similarly obscured. Supposedly
dispatched to audit a relief organization's accounts, Marc finds himself
amid the squalor and chaos of Kenyan refugee camps caught in a
stranglehold of corruption and ruthlessness.
But his true task relates to the area's reserves of once-obscure metals
now indispensible to high-tech industry. The value of this rare earth
inflames tensions on the world's stage as well as among warring tribes.
When an Israeli medical administrator, Kitra, seeks Marc's help with her
humanitarian efforts, they forge an unexpected link between impoverished
African villages and another Silicon Valley rising in the Israeli
desert. Precious metals and inventive minds promise new opportunities
for prosperity, secure futures, and protection of valuable commodities
from terrorists. As Marc prepares to report back to Washington, he
seizes a chance to restore justice to this troubled land. This time, he
may have gone too far.
