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Against a vivid canvas of violence and corruption, Hyena Dawn is a compulsively readable adventure novel set in the war-torn lands of Southern Africa.Hard-headed and impetuous, Rayne Gallagher flees his native South Africa after a tragic accident and joins the Rhodesian Light Infantry. He is embroiled in a war in which he has neither interest or cause when, unable to resist the lure of danger, he is recruited to lead a mission for the CIA in Mozambique. Amassed at the port of Beira is a vast military force led by Russian General Vorotnikov, which is preparing to invade Rhodesia. The general's grand scheme will shatter British plans for a peaceful transition from colony to democracy and create a major political and economic base for the USSR on South Africa's borders. Gallagher and a select group of mercenaries must ensure that the invasion never takes place. Theirs is a fight to the death - with the future of the whole of Southern Africa in the balance.
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Hyena Dawn, Christopher Sherlock
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- Released
- 1991
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- Title
- Hyena Dawn
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Christopher Sherlock
- Publisher
- Trafalgar Square Publishing
- Released
- 1991
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 388
- ISBN10
- 0749305649
- ISBN13
- 9780749305642
- Series
- Rating
- 3 out of 5
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- Against a vivid canvas of violence and corruption, Hyena Dawn is a compulsively readable adventure novel set in the war-torn lands of Southern Africa.Hard-headed and impetuous, Rayne Gallagher flees his native South Africa after a tragic accident and joins the Rhodesian Light Infantry. He is embroiled in a war in which he has neither interest or cause when, unable to resist the lure of danger, he is recruited to lead a mission for the CIA in Mozambique. Amassed at the port of Beira is a vast military force led by Russian General Vorotnikov, which is preparing to invade Rhodesia. The general's grand scheme will shatter British plans for a peaceful transition from colony to democracy and create a major political and economic base for the USSR on South Africa's borders. Gallagher and a select group of mercenaries must ensure that the invasion never takes place. Theirs is a fight to the death - with the future of the whole of Southern Africa in the balance.