Devil's Harvest
Andrew Brown
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Penguin Random House South Africa
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<p>After a secret drone strike on a civilian target in South Sudan, RAF air marshal George Bartholomew discovers that a piece of shrapnel traceable back to a British Reaper has been left behind at the scene. He will do anything to get it back, but he is not the only one.<br><br> Dissatisfied with his life and ousted from the marital bed, Associate Professor Gabriel Cockburn, an ambitious botanist at Bristol University, sets out to South Sudan in pursuit of a rare plant that is crucial to his research. Once there, he finds himself caught up in the travails of a young Sudanese woman, Alek, who agrees to guide him through dangerous territory to find the plant. But Alek has an agenda of her own.<br><br> As events move beyond their control, the lives of these characters are thrown together, with explosive results.<br><br> A political thriller that spans the globe, from the halls of Bristol University and Londons secretive MI6 building to the dusty streets of Juba and the refugee camps in war-torn South Sudan, Devils Harvest exposes the dark truths of the international arms trade and the plight of the worlds newest country.</p>