AustLit

'No Happy Valley (Book one of 'Winds of Change trilogy).http://amzn.to/zNGzwi.

'A story of struggle, conflict and passion set in 1950's Kenya during the Mau Mau insurrection.

'Peter Lawrence battles to build a place of his own in the raw African bush,but the Kikuyu men who work for him are secret members of the Mau-Mau determined to take back their country.

'When Peter's wife Jenny dies in an accident he falls in love with Rafiki, a beautiful Kikuyu woman, and finds himself ostracised by his own people.' (Publication summary)

''What The Crocodiles Don't Eat...is a sequel to 'No Happy Valley' in the 'Winds of Change' trilogy.

The reality of Uhuru, for which Peter and Rafiki fought so bravely, hits them hard when they discover a number of corrupt practices within Government and the Police.

From temperate Nairobi, to the inhospitable forests of the Aberdares, the steamy shores of Lake Victoria and the tropical ports of Dar-es-Salaam and Mombasa, the story takes readers through the tribulations of trying to stop the corruption, which includes the abduction of their precious son, Kamau.

Many of the characters involved in 'No Happy Valley' have a role to play in this fast paced adventure story, which results in the capture and conviction of the perpetrators of the corruption.

'The story is authetic, although all the characters are imginary. The author spent his youth on Kenya and knows all the places discussed in the book.' (Publication summary)

'The third book in the 'Winds of Change' trilogy features Kamau, the Nusu-Nusu (Half/Half) son of Peter and Rafiki.

'The novel takes us through Kamau's first uncertain steps at a now non-racial primary school in Nairobi. It gives a detailed description of his initiation into adulthood as a Kikuyu tribesman and how he unwittingly exploits that. He follows his half-brother and attends Oxford University and is selected for the England rugby side. There he clashes with one Hannes Roux who is a member of the last South African rugby team to tour the UK prior to the political changes that occurred in South Africa in the 1990's. Roux is a member of the South African security police.

'Kamau is inevitably drawn into the conflict in South Africa, so the story takes us back to Kenya and into Tanzania, Botswana, Angola and South Africa itself.

'This is a gripping and fast paced story and deals in detail with the brutality of the South African security forces and the conflict and corruption of the people fighting that ghastly regime.

'Whilst the story is a novel and the people imaginary, the background is altogether authentic: the author has either lived in or has visited all the countries and places mentioned in the book. (Publication summary)