<b>Liberia&rsquo;s oligarchy: The beginning of the end.<br /><br />2019 Grand Prize Winner - Red City Review<br /><br />Based on the remarkable true account of a young American who landed in Liberia in 1961.<br /><br />The story weaves drama, dark comedy, and romance throughout a rich tapestry of narration - The San Francisco Book Review</b><br /><br />KEN VERRIER IS NOT HAPPY, NOR AT PEACE. He is experiencing the turbulence of Ishmael and the guilt of his brother&#39;s death. His sudden decision to drop out of college and deal with his demons shocks his family, his friends, and especially his girlfriend, soon to have been his fiancee. His destination: Liberia - The richest country in Africa both in monetary wealth and in natural resources.<br /><br />NOTHING COULD HAVE PREPARED HIM FOR THE EXPERIENCES HE WAS ABOUT TO LIVE THROUGH. Ken quickly realizes that he has arrived in a place where he understands very little of what is considered normal, where the dignity of life has little meaning, and where he can trust no one.<br /><br />Flying into the interior bush as a transport pilot, Ken learns quickly. He witnesses, first-hand, the disparate lives of the Liberian &quot;Country People? and the &quot;Congo People&quot; also known as Americo-Liberians. These descendants of President Monroe&#39;s American Colonization Policy that sent freed slaves back to Africa in the 1800&#39;s have set up a strict hierarchical society not unlike the antebellum South.<br /><br />Author Dan Meier describes Ken&#39;s many escapades, spanning from horrifying to whimsical, with engaging and fast-moving narrative that ultimately describes a society upon which the wealthy are feeding and in which the poor are being buried.<br /><br /><b>It&#39;s a novel that will stay with you long after the last word has been read.</b>