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The Rift Valley Province of Kenya is an opposition stronghold their secret eviction is ordered. The regime is clinging to power ethnic hatred is rampant. In this first novel from a new Kenyan writer an unlikely trio emerges: a foul character seeking to redeem himself a young smart lawyer drawn in against her will another lawyer not averse to bending the law to achieve his ends. The effort to call a halt is a powerful fictional evocation of attempts to halt an overwheening regime.