A
DANCER IN THE DUST
by
Thomas
H. Cook
Summary
Twenty years ago, Ray
Campbell, now a cautious risk-management consultant, was a well-intentioned aid
worker dedicated to improving conditions in Lubanda, a newly independent
African country. He is forced to reconsider that year of living dangerously
when a friend from his time in Lubanda is found murdered in a New York alley.
Signs suggest that this most recent tragedy is rooted in the far more distant one
of Martine Aubert, the only woman Ray ever truly loved and whose fate he’d
sealed in a moment of grievous error: “In Lubanda, twenty years before, I’d
rolled the dice for a woman who was not even present at the table, and on the
outcome of that toss, a braver and more knowing heart than mine had been
forfeited.”
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Bio
Thomas H. Cook has been
praised by critics for his attention to psychology and the lyrical nature of
his prose. He is the author of more than 30 critically-acclaimed fiction books,
including works of true crime. Cook published his first novel, Blood Innocents,
in 1980. Cook published steadily through the 1980s, penning such works as the
Frank Clemons trilogy, a series of mysteries starring a jaded cop.
