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Place of Bones
Place of Bones
Place of Bones
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Africa is fighting its old enemies – naked greed, systemic corruption, and poorly disguised ambition. In Central Africa especially, innocence or guilt of these things can be – and is - decided by the flip of any powerful country’s coin.
Robert McCann, a disgraced U.S. Marine officer, is not a mercenary soldier through choice. Certainly not in the first instance. He fights for money because global financial interests – when it suits them - require him to do just that.
He is hired by the Chinese to overthrow Congo President Aaron Motanga’s regime, thereby throwing that country’s massive mineral rights up for grabs. And, of course, the Chinese, controlling the agenda, will hope to dictate the outcome to their own advantage. McCann has been hired because not only is he a highly successful mercenary leader, he is also one of few who actually know the precise location, let alone the very existence, of Kanyamifupa, The Place of Bones.
Kanjamifupa, originally used as a staging post for the slave trade, its access through the treacherous swamps marked only by an anomaly of vegetation, and deep in the swamplands of the Congo rain forest, is about to justify its name yet again.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherLarry Johns
Release dateApr 23, 2015
ISBN9781310426377
Place of Bones
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Larry Johns

Born and raised in Cornwall, Larry Johns has earned a living as a soldier, an artist, a jazz musician, a music lecturer and a writer, circumnavigating the world in these professions many times. He learned the mechanics of his original trade with the Staff Band of the Royal Engineers and at Kneller Hall School of Music. Moving directly to London, he occupied the lead alto saxophone chair with several big bands, whilst jazzing at many nightspots; most notably ; The "100 Club", Oxford Street; the "Allnighter", Soho and "The Bull's Head" at Barnes. At these and other venues he blew jazz shoulder-to-shoulder with Vic Ash, Harry Klein, Brian Dee, Joe Temperley. One of his enduring memories of those heady be-bob days is of swapping "fours" with the legendary vibraphonist Vic Feldman immediately prior to his moving to the U.S. to join the Woody Herman Orchestra. During this period he also played repiano clarinet with an embryonic London Symphonietta and several smaller classical combinations. Latterly, he was one of Charlie Katz's "session men", performing on numerous "hit" (and "not-so-hit") recordings of the day. Later, he worked directly for several recording companies: Decca, H.M.V., Major-Minor, Philips etc. holding the "Artists and Repertoire" position with most. With Mercury records, he fronted various stage bands on promotional tours across Europe and the Far East, working alongside rising stars of the recording world, Phil Coulter and Mike Leander. On the demise of viable big band work worldwide, Larry - along with many of his contemporaries - joined "Geraldo's Navy", and would cross the Atlantic many times - on both "Queens" - haunting the New York jazz scene...For many years to come, during "dry" periods, he would utilise this "jewel" of an employment facility, both for the pocket and for the heart. His seascapes are sold around the world. When not writing, painting, performing or travelling, he teaches art and woodwind privately in Cornwall. For more details visit his website at: www.holler-it.com

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