Out of a Southern African Furnace

A page turning corporate thriller. Life and death situations arise in an international but remote community, in Botswana, Southern Africa, where technical complexities, human weaknesses, and strengths, are used by self seeking corporate power brokers, to fraudulently gain from the endeavors a farming family, the de Bruins and Charles Obenta a tribal leader, and his people from a Tswana village, Ngami. What Ben de Bruin had found would have been of value to almost anyone with the resources to claim it…….. Turning with great difficulty Ben grasped for the case that contained the key to their family’s hoped for fortune. Gasping with pain he managed to drag the case up ……… The partners are at the end of their tether with only a friend of Ben’s, an engineer, Peter Connor to rely on. A ruthless, beautiful and sophisticated international management and engineering expert, Rebecca Rosslynn, is paid to be the respectable front for unbridled efforts to stop Peter and destroy the partner’s hopes. An awkward young Tswana, Joseph comes to play a critical part in the events. The interplay between the various interests, provides a constantly moving story as the proponents are drawn from their lives by the key interests, into and out of the heat of a campaign to acquire the wealth.