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When international correspondent Tom Craig travels to Malawi to report on a mysterious string of murders terrorizing the tiny country, he discovers another mystery that must be solved, this one very close to his heart. He decides to revisit Joss, a woman with whom he had a passionate affair some years back and who is married to the newly arrived American ambassador to Malawi. Although they last parted vowing never to meet again, he is secretly hoping to see her. But he discovers that the woman at the ambassador’s side is an imposter. He also learns he’s had a daughter by Joss who is in mortal danger. As he struggles to find out what happened to Joss and save his daughter, Tom is also solving the mystery of the string of murders with possible political links, reportedly being committed by a leopard-man. His view of life evolves as he confronts African myth very much alive in Malawi, threats to his own life, and deep desire for justice and family.
About the author
Frederic Hunter served as a Foreign Service Officer in the United States Information Service in Brussels, Belgium, and, shortly after its independence, at three posts in the Republic of the Congo: Bukavu, Coquilhatville, and Léopoldville. He later became the Africa Correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, based in Nairobi.
A playwright / screenwriter, Hunter’s award-winning stage work, The Hemingway Play, was given a reading at the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference, presented at Harvard University’s Loeb Drama Center and produced by PBS’s Hollywood Television Theater series. Other plays have been performed at the Dallas Theatre Center, ACT in San Francisco, and the Ensemble Theater in Santa Barbara.
Movies Hunter has written have been produced by PBS, ABC, and CBS. Research for his PBS drama Lincoln and the War Within led him to write the historical novel Abe and Molly: The Lincoln Courtship. He’s taught screenwriting at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, at UCSB, and at Principia College where he also taught Modern African Literature. Hunter’s Africa experience is the basis for several of his novels.
Summary
When international correspondent Tom Craig travels to Malawi to report on a mysterious string of murders terrorizing the tiny country, he discovers another mystery that must be solved, this one very close to his heart. He decides to revisit Joss, a woman with whom he had a passionate affair some years back and who is married to the newly arrived American ambassador to Malawi. Although they last parted vowing never to meet again, he is secretly hoping to see her. But he discovers that the woman at the ambassador’s side is an imposter. He also learns he’s had a daughter by Joss who is in mortal danger. As he struggles to find out what happened to Joss and save his daughter, Tom is also solving the mystery of the string of murders with possible political links, reportedly being committed by a leopard-man. His view of life evolves as he confronts African myth very much alive in Malawi, threats to his own life, and deep desire for justice and family.
