The Barros Pawns

Peter J. Earle

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Why I wrote this book

Why do I breathe? I would die if I didn't. I have so many stories in me I'd explode if I didn't write.
 
Why different? I hope my stories are the same as any other un-put-downable, action-packed adventure story of Africa!
 
Because they hunger for an un-put-downable, action-packed adventure story of Africa!

Synopsis

Apartheid South Africa is under siege from World Opinion and sanctions. Together with Rhodesia under Ian Smith, an ill advised clandestine operation plants explosives throughout Mozambique, as the Portuguese prepare to withdraw and Communism is on the brink of taking over the country. A turncoat senior South African Army officer in the know intends to use his knowledge for his own benefit.

A group of South African skydivers is lured to Mozambique to join the private army of a rich businessman, Barros, who is determined to stave off the looming independence. His daughter, however, in cahoots with Chinese agents, wants to use them, in South African uniforms, to convince an international journalist, John Alistair, that South Africa is meddling in the affairs of her neighbours, to invoke world outrage. What seems to be a bit of a lark for the skydivers, turns into a nightmare as their leader is murdered and the rest are imprisoned.

Seven of the skydivers survive to escape the trap. However, some of them join the renegade officer to rob Beira of it’s valuables in the chaos of the detonation. But two of them, Geoff Nourse and Dan McNeil join forces with South African agents whose task it is to stave off the coming explosion.

Nourse and McNeil drop from a plane onto the forces of the renegade officer in time to prevent the conflagration.

Alistair survives to return to Britain to write the real story. Mozambique receives its independence from Portugal.

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