He was Werner Hoffer, the tall, handsome ex-army officer, chief of the customs division in the Leopoldville Ministry of Finance. She was LouLou Massamba, a fourteen-year-old black nymphet.
They met in the sophisticated Parc Hembise villa, when the Republic of the Congo was Africa's powder keg. And their love affair was the match that touched off the explosion ...
Out of the corruption, eroticism, and violence of a newly emergent nation comes this astonishing novel. In it you will find human nature in the raw:
"The Zoo," where orgies of smuggled liquor break down the inhibitions of cultured European girls; the official ministries, where justice is served so long as it does not interfere with the traffic in diamonds and ivory; the offices, airports, and luxurious Hotels of the whites; the rebel army camps, jungle trails, and Old Binza huts of the blacks.