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" The adventure begins when a young American couple go to Sudan to buy freedom for slaves from the “Tribe Men,” slavers who still practice this odious trade as they did hundreds of years ago, forcing thousands of men, women and children into lives of misery, torture, mutilation and unspeakable sexual acts. The American couple finds themselves captured and made slaves— he forced to become a trained fighter for his owner's sport, she to become a sex slave, learning depths of human depravity never dreamed of as a middle-class college student. The beautiful young woman undergoes incredible ordeals as alone and desperate, she tries to flee her captors and survive in a hostile, warring land where life is cheap and women are less important than goats.
A former member of the crack British 22nd Special Air Services, now a safari guide in Kenya, is brought, reluctantly, into an effort to find and rescue the young Americans. He is teamed with an unlikely partner, a young, black CIA operative and former navy SEAL who specializes in clandestine operations in the Middle East. They trek through Sudan's wilds, while roving militia and bandit warlords scavenge the fringes of the seventeen-year long genocidal war between rebel factions and the National Islamic Front-backed government.
The Kenyan hunter uses his .600 Nitro Express rifle and his wits to augment the CIA agent's high-tech .50-caliber McMillan sniper rifle and black ops skills as they experience capture, escape and many battles against overwhelming odds. When they finally find the two young American captives, personal relationships alter and sexual attractions are elevated to new heights. Then a new plot by Osama bin-Laden's terrorist group known as al-Qaeda to attack major U.S. embassies and military bases using the deadliest of the new warfare technology is uncovered. "
C.L. Barker, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 10%
Tone of story
- suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
Time/era of story:
- present (2000-2010)
Spying/Terrorism Thriller
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- kidnap/rescue
Kid or adult book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Who's the terrorist enemy here?
- arabs and/or muslims
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- farmer
Age:
- 40's-50's
How much violence does he/she use?
- a significant amount
Ethnicity/Race
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- slaver
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- an average amount
Motive of antagonist
- power
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- quite fatty
Setting
Africa
Yes
Part of Africa:
- Arabic Africa
Desert?
Yes
Desert:
- hostile arabs
Style
Part of a series?
Yes
Person
- mostly 3rd
How many deaths?
- 8 or more
Sex
Yes
What kind of sex:
- actual description of sex
- descript. of breasts
- descript. of other female areas
A lot of techno jargon?
Yes
Kind of jargon?
- military technology
Unusual forms of death
- poisoning
- dropped from large heights
- radiation
- flamed
- drowned
- biohazard/virus
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
- exploded into bits
Unusual form of death?
Yes
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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