A San Francisco attorney brings a civil suit against an oil company
in a frantic, ingenious attempt to save the life of an African
dissident.Bobby Okari has long been a thorn in the side of General
Savior Karama, president of the nation of Luandia, a fictitious
country that adds Zimbabwe's strongman politics and Rwanda's tribal
strife to the oil-stained recent history of Nigeria. Now a massive
protest Bobby has organized against Karama's regime and the
economic stranglehold of PetroGlobal Luandia has ended disastrously
with the destruction of Bobby's native village of Goro, the
massacre of its inhabitants and Bobby's arrest for the hangings of
three PGL employees. The case against Bobby seems an obvious
frame-up, but under the watchful eye of Karama and his brutal
enforcer, Col. Paul Okimbo, it's bound to succeed unless Bobby
comes up with a secret weapon. That weapon arrives in the form of
Damon Pierce, a recently divorced American lawyer who once loved
Marissa Brand, the biracial idealist who became Bobby's wife.
Loyalty to Marissa draws Pierce to Luandia and through a numbing
but highly informative series of meetings with forgettable
functionaries who, as usual in Patterson (The Race, 2007, etc.),
get to make a case for every possible viewpoint on Luandia's
tragic, fully consensual exploitation by multinational corporations
and a world citizenry so avid for cheap oil that they're more than
willing to turn a blind eye on its true price. Returning to the
United States, Pierce works feverishly to build a case against PGL
for providing material support to Okimbo's brutal repression of the
protest in order to pressure the corporation to intervene in the
case against Bobby - or, at the very least, to prevent it from
fueling his prosecution in the show trial that's bound to
follow.Despite wafer-thin characters, a satisfying fable that pits
a hero who deeply believes in the rule of law against a violent,
lawless regime that holds all the cards. (Kirkus Reviews)
This is the new novel from the thinking man's thriller writer. In a
novel of international intrigue, an American lawyer, Damon Pierce,
attempts to save Bobby Okari, the West African leader of a protest
movement, from execution by the country's corrupt and autocratic
leader. Pierce is in a race against time, and as the complex trial
- involving terrorism and the geopolitics of oil, missing witnesses
and evidence, and the whims of a lawless country - unfolds, bodies
fall and fates dangle.Complicating matters further is Okari's wife,
Marissa Brand, with whom Pierce had a relationship years before
that he's never quite forgotten; she, in fact, persuaded him to
take the case in the first place, and it is who she plays a crucial
role in the eventual outcome of this taut and atmospheric novel.
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