Hyena's Tree
- ISBN-10
- 1681890194
- ISBN-13
- 9781681890197
- Category
- Africa, West
- Pages
- 340
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- THEAQ Publishing
- Author
- Thomas Joseph Larson
Description
With wildlife of sub-Saharan West Africa as a backdrop, adventure, mystery, and terror rush together in a flood of events, which sweeps the reader in to a wild and beautiful world. Mysteries from a century earlier intersect with greed and terror to engulf innocent Africans and Peace Corps volunteers in a life or death struggle. Will they survive?
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