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This âbeautifully written and elegantly plottedâ thriller from the Edgar Awardâwinning author of The Chatham School Affair is âone of his best everâ (The Globe and Mail, Toronto).  Twenty years ago, Ray Campbell was a well-intentioned aid worker dedicated to improving conditions in Lubanda, a newly independent African country. Now a cautious risk-management consultant, he is forced to reconsider that year of living dangerously when an old friend is found murdered in a New York alley. Signs suggest that this recent tragedy is rooted in a more distant oneâthat of Martine Aubert, the only woman Ray ever loved, whose fate heâd sealed with a grievous mistake: âIn Rupala, twenty years before, I had rolled the dice for a woman who was not even present at the table, and how on the outcome of that toss, a braver and more knowing heart than mine had been forfeited.â  Martine Aubert was a white, native Lubandan farmer whose dream for her homeland put her in conflict with fearsome men intent on its so-called development. As Ray returns to Lubanda to investigate the cause of his friendâs murder, he also revisits the passion heâd once felt for Martine and vows, in her memory, to rectify his wrongs.  A Dancer in the Dust is a gripping story of ill-fated love: one manâs love for an extraordinary woman, and one womanâs love for her troubled country.  âNot since John Le Carréâs The Mission Song have I seen such a loving and sorrowful portrait of modern Africa.â âThe News \u0026 Observer (Raleigh) |
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