Downfall and Freedom

A Novel About the Arms Trade, South Africa, and the Kwazulu

Fiction & Literature, Action Suspense
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Author: Charles E. Webb ISBN: 9781462068159
Publisher: iUniverse Publication: December 19, 2011
Imprint: iUniverse Language: English
Author: Charles E. Webb
ISBN: 9781462068159
Publisher: iUniverse
Publication: December 19, 2011
Imprint: iUniverse
Language: English

Thousands of miles apart, John Wesley Zooma and Clarence VanDyke Jackson witness horrific events in their young livesevents that ultimately shape the direction of their future. Zooma is a full member of the Zulu tribe in Natal, South Africa, and Jackson is an African American in a small town in south-central Mississippi. Following the traumatic events of their youths, they vow to exact revenge someday. Years later, the two become connected through Jacksons illegal arms trade business. When Jackson falls in love with a Brazilian woman, he decides its time to leave the arms trade behindbut not before brokering one last deal with his partner, a German man named Carl Durnbacher. But Durnbacher doesnt take well to Jacksons defection from the partnership, and he orders a hit on Jackson. In the meantime, trouble is brewing in South Africa, where Zooma is privy to the details of the impending uprising. He uses his resources to aid friend Michael Stephens, who had saved his life during a work accident, escape the country with his family instead of being killed. Through a tangled web of relationships, Downfall and Freedom follows the illegal arms trade business as it becomes involved in the South African revolution.

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Thousands of miles apart, John Wesley Zooma and Clarence VanDyke Jackson witness horrific events in their young livesevents that ultimately shape the direction of their future. Zooma is a full member of the Zulu tribe in Natal, South Africa, and Jackson is an African American in a small town in south-central Mississippi. Following the traumatic events of their youths, they vow to exact revenge someday. Years later, the two become connected through Jacksons illegal arms trade business. When Jackson falls in love with a Brazilian woman, he decides its time to leave the arms trade behindbut not before brokering one last deal with his partner, a German man named Carl Durnbacher. But Durnbacher doesnt take well to Jacksons defection from the partnership, and he orders a hit on Jackson. In the meantime, trouble is brewing in South Africa, where Zooma is privy to the details of the impending uprising. He uses his resources to aid friend Michael Stephens, who had saved his life during a work accident, escape the country with his family instead of being killed. Through a tangled web of relationships, Downfall and Freedom follows the illegal arms trade business as it becomes involved in the South African revolution.

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