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Land of the Sun, Land Without Light by David Michael Litwack

Book Synopsis

Aaron Hamblin is named executor of his older brother, Harrison’s (Harry’s), estate; and, in organizing Harry’s possessions, Aaron finds a kind of manuscript with sometimes jumbled notes describing Harry’s adventures overseas—and that Harry may have been an unwitting accomplice to misdirection and its outcome.

Harry Hamblin, a Peace Corps teacher in the Sahel, just on the edge of the Sahara, finds himself embroiled in a maelstrom in part of his own making. He has agreed to be “eyes and ears for an unnamed American agency.

He befriends the leader of a rebellion and, as a result, becomes the target of a National Militia Colonel. Both the rebel and Colonel use him to carry sometimes misleading messages to the opposition. He portrays himself as “…the perfect go-between. The perfect traitor. To both sides." Harry tries to massage these messages and engineer a truce, but, given the eventual futility of his best efforts, he learns he must take the only way out. Or should he?

Land of the Sun is to a great extent a bildungsroman by a narrator who writes in a humorous and self-deprecating style. Much of the drama (and humor) derives from intercultural differences and misunderstandings as well post colonial confusion. The cultural information is true and accurate. To a degree, But more importantly, I believe that I have used the power of imagination and knowledge to inform, entertain, and hopefully captivate the reader--to create this unusual and sometimes even unbelievable story.

Author Bio

DAVID MICHAEL,Michael David (as Mother would have it—his parents couldn’t make up their minds) grew up on the Kansas/Missouri state-line. The tension deriving from his ambiguous naming and breeding location might explain the eclectic mix of folk, international, and country selections that he offers. He’s a wanna-be songwriter noted for, among others, Rock ‘n Roll Nation, El Wahid, and Leavin’ Sara Lee…or soon will be. In the meantime he writes kids’ books; he writes espionage novels; he writes technical stuff; and he romantically proffers his love only to Donna Lu.

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