this is Black Hal, do you copy, over?’
Chapter Twenty-Seven
The slight, middle-aged man wears a cheap suit and an…
Chapter Twenty-Eight
A heavy explosion shakes Gabriel awake at two a.m.
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Dieudonné Rukuba stands in front of a large audience seated…
Chapter Thirty
Joseph squats on the ground and looks up as eleven…
Chapter Thirty-One
Eve looks out over the elegant hotel dining room packed…
Chapter Thirty-Two
Sophie points Alex towards the large grass field just inside…
The End of Days
Chapter Thirty-Three
The United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs,…
Chapter Thirty-Four
Gabriel heaves himself off the back of the old blue…
Chapter Thirty-Five
‘Well, welcome to Heaven,’ Alex says, spreading his hands and…
Chapter Thirty-Six
Joseph sits on the ground in the new detention facility…
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Alex looks at Rukuba across the table from him.
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Alex looks at Rukuba reclining in his hammock in front…
Chapter Thirty-Nine
The two helicopters wind up their engines on the new…
Chapter Forty
Up on top of the bluff in Tac’s position, Sophie…
Chapter Forty-One
Alex looks at Sophie.
Chapter Forty-Two
A week after the battle at Violo, on 21st June,…
Chapter Forty-Three
Secretary of State Patricia Johnson has expensive blonde hair, shrewd…
Chapter Forty-Four
Joseph and Simon are bursting with excitement as the bus…
Chapter Forty-Five
The helicopter skims low over Lake Kivu. It disappears behind…
Chapter Forty-Six
Sophie turns and looks out of the rear window of…
Chapter Forty-Seven
Sophie is sitting on Alex’s lap after dinner. He has…
Chapter Forty-Eight
Joseph stands laughing on the roof of the cab of…
Chapter Forty-Nine
The Fadoul refinery on the outskirts of Goma is a…
Chapter Fifty
Alex is pacing up and down in the ops tent,…
Chapter Fifty-One
Carla Schmidt and the other journalists are still waiting in…
Chapter Fifty-Two
Joseph and the crowd of young men watch the American…
Chapter Fifty-Three
Alex leans over the shoulder of the door gunner and…
Chapter Fifty-Four
Joseph is near the front of the mob charging towards…
Chapter Fifty-Five
One thousand kilometres away to the northeast, night has just…
Chapter Fifty-Six
Joseph has his face pressed down into the wet grass.
Chapter Fifty-Seven
A shout comes through the trees to Alex’s right.
Chapter Fifty-Eight
The second rifle grenade smashes through the windscreen of the…
Chapter Fifty-Nine
Yamba pours water from his canteen over Alex’s face and…
Chapter Sixty
The helicopter settles down gently on the lawn and sinks…
Epilogue
Author’s Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Other Books by the Same Author
Map
Chapter One
KIVU PROVINCE,
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
Eve Mapendo sees the figure lit by moonlight.
It has the body of a muscular man stripped to the waist and the head of a kudu, a dark antelope head with two heavy horns spiralling out of it like madness.
The creature stands in an opening in the forest on the hillside above her, at the front of a file of soldiers. They wear black cloth hoods over their heads with ragged holes cut for eyes and mouths. They stand in complete silence; the silver light frosts the surface of every leaf around them.
The horned head turns in her direction, the large eyes darkened by the shadow of its heavy brows.
Her pupils dilate wide as the adrenaline hits them. She clenches her throat muscles and painfully chokes off a scream. It cannot see her in the shadows of
