A sinister group of businessmen get together to arrange a cartel - a squeeze on the neck of a new country, eritrea. it's their second strike at project babylon, and this time the monstrous puppet-master in washington won't let it fail: flood the markets, ruin the traders, ruin the farmers, pour in dollars, drugs and disease... it could spell the end of the road for eplf veteran samuel and his hopes for a happy life with the beautiful tsinat, daughter of an important businessman. but the cartel is blown apart from within. a prostitute is found hanged. a key player is found dead in a wrecked car. can samuel get to them before they get to him? can he use his skill with disguises and mastery of arms to save his skin, his country and his future with tsinat? dr. kibreab fre's stark exposé of modern gangster politics is topical, in your face and horribly real. read it - and it won't go away!