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| Old version circa 2004 |
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| Brand spanking new version, 2014 |
I love how the new version looks like a Tarzan poster, some pulp fiction adventure thing, which pretty much describes the book. Here's the blurb. I'll be reissuing it within a couple of weeks.
From
a land you’ve never heard of
Comes
a story you’ll never forget
1896. In the vast network of the Niger Delta
waterways, where palm oil and blood flow from the hinterlands, the ancient
Kingdom of Benin is under siege.
Legendary trader and leopard hunter Brendan Donivan battles to protect
his adopted homeland’s sacred civilization from the colonial expansion of the
British while balancing his commerce with the whiteman’s world. Brendan’s reality is fractured by the arrival
of…
…New
York anthropologist Elle Bowie, drawn to the Guinea Coast by a
dream. Amazed to discover the domain
holds vast happiness and delights, she cannot reveal her true ambition. For against everything her mind and heart has
trained her for, she has it bad for the “Coast Gentleman.”
Brendan
cannot love a woman who is in cahoots with the British. Elle cannot love any
man.
Central
in the scheming of the Oil Rivers citizens is the traitorous gnome Mateus,
descended from Portuguese soldiers. the
happy-go-lucky Texan, Rip, who masquerades as Elle’s husband. and the majestic and brutal General
Ologboshere, in command of thousands of warriors.
As
Brendan and Elle become mixed up in the political intrigues of the steamy
jungle, the British forces bear down relentlessly upon them. They face the extinction of a way of life,
trading hulks anchored in the rivers, advanced bronze artwork, colossal war
canoes, and the supremacy of the Oba, King of Benin, second in command to the
gods.
The
Kingdom of Benin, the land of ritualistic human sacrifice and juju religion.
The lives and loves of many hang in the balance in…THE HINTERLANDS