The nth draft of the blurb
The nth draft of the blurb for my latest book “The Line in the Sand” (coming soon).
Jane and Wale Verity and their twelve year old daughter, Dele, meet Sandman during a military coup in South Roko. In revenge for Jane’s colonial past, Sandman frames Wale for murder. He rapes Dele. Jane is killed.
Ten years later Sandman is a cabinet minister and Dele is a lonely medical student, yearning for revenge. She meets Mrs Lagbaja, an elderly patient and passionate parrot lover. One night Mrs Lagbaja disturbs trespassers in her house and finds that while she was away her prized African Grey parrot, Confucius, has acquired a profane vocabulary. She is still trying to make sense of these events when Sandman ransacks her house and removes Confucius. Distraught, she turns to Dele for help.
Dele sees a chance for revenge. “If the eye picks a fight with even the tiniest grain of sand it must end in tears” she says. But will her grim quest for retribution succeed, or claim her too? The Line in the Sand is a powerful story about evil and the deep human need for justice.
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