Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.2 / 5.0

A very enjoyable read:

This is the type of novel that allows just the correct amount of history, exotic locale and adventure to make a great reading experience. Pre WW II Africa is the setting just prior to the Italian invasion. The story, characters and conflicting cultures made for me a truly enjoyable read.

I expected much more!:

After reading "The White Rhino Hotel", I was looking forward to this book. I truly enjoyed the cast of characters I knew would be inhabiting it from Bull's other novel set in Africa. I was disappointed. The people of the story are still well-written and the texture of the settings is first-rate. But the story left me cold. I know that "coincidences" and "contrivances" are necessary to any plot, this one was almost nothing but. If you like a rather brutish tale set during the Italian invasion of Abyssinia... more info

excellent reading!:

This is the first Bartle Bull I've read but won't be the last. Thoroughly enjoyable and difficult to put down. Very fast paced and it just keeps going and going. Sort of like Tom Clancy without the techno-babble and Robert Ludlum without the gory details. I got caught up in what was going to happen next to the characters, the color of Cairo, Ethiopia and colonial empires circa 1935 and the plot. Although the characters are many, they are well developed. I got a sense of knowing them well quickly without... more info

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