Description
Zoe Fleming is an American attorney working with an NGO devoted to combating child sexual assault in Lusaka, Zambia. When an adolescent girl is raped in the dark of night and delivered by strangers to the hospital, Zoe's organization is called in to help.Working alongside Zambian police officer Joseph Kabuta, Zoe learns that the girl's assailant was not a street kid or a paedophile but the son of a powerful industrialist with deep ties to the Zambian government. As the prosecution against him grinds forward, hampered by systemic corruption and bureaucratic inertia, Zoe and Joseph's search for the truth takes them from Lusaka's roughest neighbourhoods to the wild waters of Victoria Falls, to the AIDS-ridden streets of Johannesburg and the splendour of Cape Town.
As the rape trial builds to a climax and sends shock waves through Zambian society, Zoe must radically reshape her assumptions about love, loyalty, family'and, especially, the meaning of justice. ISBN 9781780876962
