Shadows in the Wind

<h3><strong style=color: rgba(0 112 192 1)>Shadows in the Wind - Corpus Quadripartitum: Volume II</strong></h3><p><span style=color: rgba(0 112 192 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 112 192 1)>The innocence of youth has fallen away. In </span><em style=color: rgba(0 112 192 1)>Shadows in the Wind - Corpus Quadripartitum: Volume II</em><span style=color: rgba(0 112 192 1)> hope and idealism are forced to contend with betrayal corruption and the brutal cost of power.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 112 192 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 112 192 1)>This collected volume contains </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 112 192 1)>Book III: <em>Malitia Adolescit</em> (Evil Grows Up)</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 112 192 1)> and </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 112 192 1)>Book IV: <em>Quisque moriatur ut vitam perseveret</em> (All Die so that Life May Continue)</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 112 192 1)>-the searing climax of Rob Steyn's sweeping saga.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 112 192 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 112 192 1)>In </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 112 192 1)><em>Malitia Adolescit</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 112 192 1)> Jamie Soper and Julie Capriot once young dreamers at Oxford now find themselves caught in a tightening web of global stakes. Their pursuit of justice empathy and conservation collides with forces far more ruthless than they imagined: corporate interests entwined with fragile sanctuaries boardrooms locked in battles over Africa's resources and William Braithwaite's expanding empire of influence. Hardened by the scars of childhood Braithwaite's hunger for control metastasises into something vast and unrelenting. Loyalties fracture love falters under pressure and hope strains against the inexorable rise of violence and greed.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 112 192 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 112 192 1)>In </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 112 192 1)><em>Quisque moriatur ut vitam perseveret</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 112 192 1)> the shadows reach their darkest hour. Jamie stands at the heart of a storm where state power corporate greed and paramilitary violence converge upon the Congo sanctuary-a fragile beacon of conservation and compassion. William Braithwaite's shadow stretches to its fullest extent but even his empire is threatened by forces older and more ruthless than himself. Innocence gives way to sacrifice; ideals are tested in the crucible of betrayal and bloodshed. Some lives must be lost so that others may endure.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 112 192 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 112 192 1)>Unflinching deeply human and haunting in its resonance </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 112 192 1)><em>Corpus Quadripartitum: Volume II</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 112 192 1)> confronts the reader with the true costs of ambition and survival-while holding fast to the fragile enduring possibility of empathy.</span></p>