Story Description:
HarperCollins
Publishers Ltd|March 18, 2013|Trade Paperback|ISBN: 978-1-44341-969-7
Zoe Fleming is an
American attorney working with an NGO devoted to combating child sexual assault
in Lusaka, Zambia. When an adolescent
girl is raped in the dark of the night and delivered by strangers to the
hospital, Zoe’s organization is called in to help.
Working alongside
Zambian police officer Joseph Kabuta, Zoe learns that the girl’s assailant was
not a street kid or a pedophile but the son of a powerful industrialist with
deep ties to the Zambian government. As
the prosecution against him grinds forward, hampered by systemic corruption and
bureaucratic inertia, Zoe and Joseph’s search for the truth takes them from
Lusaka’s roughest neighborhoods to the wild waters of Victoria Falls, to the
AIDS-ridden streets of Johannesburg and the splendour of Cape Town.
As the rape trial
builds to a climax and sends shockwaves through Zambian society, Zoe must
radically reshape her assumptions above love, loyalty, family, and especially,
the meaning of justice.
My Review:
The above description does the story justice and there isn’t much more that I can add other than to say this is a must-read as well. Very, very good.
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