Emma's War: Love, Betrayal And Death In The

Love, corruption, violence and the dangerous politics of aid in the , by an exciting new writer. Emma McCune's passion for Africa, her unstinting commitment to the children of the , and her striking glamour set her apart from other aid workers the moment she arrived in southern . But no one was prepared for her decision to marry a local warlord – a man who seemed to embody everything she was working against – and throw herself into his violent quest to take over southern 's rebel movement. At once a disturbing love story and a penetrating examination of the , "Emma's War" charts the process by which Emma's romantic delusions led to her descent into the hell of Africa's longest running civil war.