Hunting the Devil

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In response to the worldwide epidemic of genocides and to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide Suanne Schafer has issued a second edition of </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Hunting the Devil</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> revised and with a new Author's Note. The electronic edition will be free from April 7 through July 15 2024 the hundred days the 1994 genocide lasted.</span></p><p><br></p><p>When biracial physician Jessica Hemings volunteers for a medical mission in Rwanda she becomes entrapped in the maelstrom of Rwandan politics and the enmity between Hutu and Tutsi. Her US passport doesn't afford the security she'd hoped for as her Tutsi-like features plunge her into horrors of the Rwandan Genocide. Dr. Cyprien Gatera Jess's superior and a Hutu militant commandeers her clinic forces her to treat his wounded and then slaughters her patients and her adopted sons. She escapes and finds refuge at Benaco refugee camp in Tanzania.</p><p><br></p><p>There beset by grief hatred and PTSD Jess vows revenge. With the help of Michel Fournier a French lawyer-turned-war-correspondent and Dr. Tom Powell her ex-lover she searches for Gatera who has fled Rwanda to escape post-genocide reprisals. When an unknown informant passes information to Jess about her nemesis she returns to Rwanda despite warnings from the Belgian Secret Service that Gatera plans to assassinate her. In their final showdown Jess must decide if revenge is best served cold or not at all.</p><p><br></p><p>Part medical procedural part global political thriller part vigilante novel and part fractured romance <em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Hunting the Devil</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> moves from the dusty washboard roads of Rwanda to an inner-city hospital in America to the Natural History Museum of Belgium to the halls of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha Tanzania as it deftly traces one woman's journey toward justice.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>AWARDS:</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Finalist Chanticleer International Book Awards Thriller and Suspense Fiction 2020</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Finalist the Eric Hoffer Book Awards the Da Vinci Eye 2020</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Finalist the International Review of Books</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Finalist the Story Circle Network Women's Book Awards</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Finalist Top Shelf Book Awards 2020</span></p>