<b>Death of a 130-year Oligarchy.<br /><br />Volume 2 in The Dung Beetles of Liberia series.</b><br /><br />In April of 1979, Ken Verrier and his wife, Sam, return to Liberia to buy diamonds. They did not return to get caught up in a rice riot and a coup de&#39;etat. But that&#39;s what happens. Ken witnesses and unwittingly participates in a period of Liberia&#39;s tumultuous yet poorly documented history---the overthrow of the Tolbert presidency and ultimately the end of the Americo-Liberian one hundred thirty-three years of political and social dominance.<br /><br />Details of President Tolbert&#39;s assassination are sketchy, but through Ken&#39;s association with his Americo friends from the past, the CIA agents he meets, and the Liberian military he is forced to deal with, a believable scenario emerges.<br /><br /><b>While describing the once beautiful country and a kind and generous people, Meier intertwines terrifying tales of the atrocities committed that account for the future pain of an entire nation.</b>