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Author: Christopher Lowery
ISBN: 9781909273153
Format: Paperback
Extent: 624 pp
Price: £6.99
Publication: August 2015
Publisher: Urbane Publications
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THE ANGOLAN CLAN takes the reader on a heart-stopping roller coaster ride, from past to present and back again. It is a deadly intercontinental treasure hunt laced with secrets, deceit and murder. The prize is a fortune in Angolan diamonds – .or death at the hands of a pathological killer.
1974 – following the Revolution of Carnations, Portugal is transformed into a communist state. Capitalists become hunted prey and the liberated Portuguese colonies enter into the longest and bloodiest civil wars in history. The fabled Angolan diamond mines are closed down. A group of refugees manages to escape with a hoard of Angolan diamonds, which bring them wealth and success. But a legacy of revenge and greed will eventually catch up with them with fatal consequences.
2008 – a millionaire businessman drowns in the pool of his mansion in Marbella; a wealthy Frenchman is killed while skiing in the Alps; and a Portuguese playboy is found murdered with a prostitute in New York. The series of deaths sets Jenny Bishop, a young English widow, and Angolan born Leticia da Costa, on a terrifying journey into the past – to revisit the Portuguese revolution and the Angolan civil war. Through posthumous messages they begin to unlock a 30 year old mystery that promises to change their lives forever – if they live to tell the tale.
