T. Roghi Livres

In German East Africa, on the eve of the First World War, two freebooting adventures - one a flamboyant Irish American, the other an impeccable young Englishman - pit their wits against the gross German Commissioner from whose territory they are making their living as game hunters and ivory poachers. But the outbreak of war gives the signal for their private skimishing to flare into a relentless vendetta pursued with devestrating violence, by land and sea, so that what began as a comic escapade gives way to chilling horror. -- back cover