Acts of faith:
This epic novel, based on the author's own experiences in Africa, tells the stories of pilots, aid workers, missionaries, and renegades struggling to relieve the misery wrought by the civil war in Sudan. The hearts of these men and women are in the right place, but as they plunge into a well of...
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| Summary: | This epic novel, based on the author's own experiences in Africa, tells the stories of pilots, aid workers, missionaries, and renegades struggling to relieve the misery wrought by the civil war in Sudan. The hearts of these men and women are in the right place, but as they plunge into a well of moral corruption for which they are ill-prepared, their hidden flaws conspire with circumstances to turn their strengths--bravery, compassion, daring, and empathy--into weaknesses. In pursuit of noble ends, they make ethical compromises; their altruism curdles into self-righteous zealotry and greed, entangling them in a web of conspiracies that leads, finally, to murder. A few, however, escape the moral trap and find redemption in the discovery that firm convictions can blind the best-intentioned man or woman to the difference between right and wrong.--From publisher description. |
| Physical Description: | 669 S. |
| ISBN: | 0375411666 |
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| adam_text | ALSO BY PHILIP
A Rumor of War
Horn of Africa
DelCorso s Gallery
Indian Country
Means of Escape
Equation for Evil
Exiles
The Voyage
In the Shadows of Morning
Ghosts ofTsavo
Thirty years ago, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
and journalist Philip
Sudan and Eritrea on foot and camelback, a journey
that inspired his first novel, Horn of Africa, and awak¬
ened a lifelong fascination with Africa. His travels have
since taken him back to Sudan, as well as to Kenya,
Somalia, and Tanzania, and from those experiences he
has fashioned Acts of Faith, his most ambitious novel.
A stunning and timely epic, it tells the stories of pilots,
aid workers, missionaries, and renegades struggling to
relieve the misery wrought by the civil war in Sudan.
The hearts of these men and women are in the right
place, but as they plunge into a well of moral corrup¬
tion for which they are ill-prepared, their hidden flaws
conspire with circumstances to turn their strengths
bravery, compassion, daring, and empathy
nesses. In pursuit of noble ends, they make ethical
compromises; their altruism curdles into self-righteous
zealotry and greed, entangling them in a web of con¬
spiracies that leads, finally, to murder. A few, how¬
ever, escape the moral trap and find redemption in the
discovery that firm convictions can blind the best-
intentioned man or woman to the difference between
right and wrong.
Douglas Braithwaite, an American aviator who flies
food and medicine to Sudan s ravaged south, is torn
between his altruism and powerful personal ambitions.
His partners are Fitzhugh Martin, a multiracial Kenyan
who sees Sudan as a cause that can give purpose to his
directionless life, and Wesley Dare, a hard-bitten bush
pilot who is not as cynical as he thinks he is and sacri¬
fices all for the woman he loves.
They are joined by two strong women: Quinette
Hardin, an evangelical Christian from Iowa who liber¬
ates slaves captured by Arab raiders and who falls in
love with a Sudanese rebel; and Diana
daughter of a family with colonial roots in Africa, who
believes that her love for her adopted continent might
be enough to save it.
Pitted against them is Ibrahim Idris ibn Nur-el-Din,
a fierce Arab warlord whose obsessive quest for an
escaped concubine undermines his faith in the holy
war he is waging against Sudan s southern blacks.
In a harsh yet alluring landscape, these and other
vividly realized characters act out a drama of modern-
day Africa. Grounded in the reality of today s headlines,
Acts of Faith is a captivating novel of human complexity
that combines seriousness with all the seductive pleas¬
ure of a masterly thriller.
Philip
Tribune and shared a Pulitzer Prize in
reporting on election fraud in Chicago. He is the
author of six other works of fiction and two memoirs,
including A Rumor of War, about his service in Viet¬
nam. He divides his time between Connecticut and
Arizona.
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