Don't Shout at the Honey Badger!

An adventure thriller set in Africa during and after the period where many countries in East, Central and Southern Africa transitioned from Colonial Rule into independence. Brian Kruger, who runs his own safari business, finds himself having to confront 'The Somali' head-on, after having crossed paths with him once too often. That this character is a criminal with a pedigree, one whose poaching and smuggling activities are conducted across the region using a level of technology and a degree of ruthlessness that is above and beyond that used by any others of his ilk, is what makes him such an existential threat. Brian, together with Mrefu, his 'tested in battle' Maasai friend and employee, are pushed to the limit of their resources in their first few skirmishes with 'The Somali'. They soon realised that they had to appeal to a chosen few from within Brian's 'cabal' of friends to help them cope with what they knew could only escalate. They would be relying on an inordinate amount of deception, and the setting up a series of baits that 'The Somali' would have to swallow hook line and sinker, that would cause him to be led to a location where he would be ambushed and dealt with in a way that would once and for all end a quite unreal situation. With most in Brian's 'cabal' having been born and raised on the African continent, his close friends included both 'mzungus' and 'wenyejis', local white as well as indigenous black people. That they had to be the most eclectic and charismatic circle of friends anyone could hope to be surrounded by, warrants them being introduced almost as short stories in themselves. This, and the fact that they lived in a country that was a wildlife mecca endowed with a natural beauty and a varied topography that just lent itself to adventure, was what had no doubt afforded them lifestyles that could only have been envied by those living elsewhere. Adventurous was what they were, and timid was what they were not, and so just how each of them lived their lives, including their romantic lives, in a country that transitioned itself, in a quite unusual manner one might add, into independence, can only be told about as little adventures in themselves. Adventures, that on the face of things appear as quite surrealistic to the uninitiated, although not to them of course, given the society and the prevailing social norms of the country they lived in, as well as the political and economic realities of the day in a continent called Africa.

• | Author: Robert Zahra
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: Feb 20, 2025
• | Number of Pages: 00280 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: NA
• | ISBN-13: 9798303739567