About
Nightfall in Mogadishu
We’ve seen Black Hawk Down, the movie
on the horrendous firefight between American Army Rangers
and Somali gunmen. But do we know what caused the Somali
government to collapse, and why the U.S. had to send
in troops? For the first time, the story of Somalia
is told in the novel, Nightfall in Mogadishu. The page-turning
thriller portrays the pressures that build up to the
final explosion. Pieces of history are cleverly woven
into the fabric of the story: the Somali nomadic lifestyle,
colonial occupation and independence, and the rise of
its dictator, Siad Barre, whose tactic of “divide
and conquer” pushes already fractious clans into
headlong collision.
The story begins with the murder of a high ranking U.N
representative in Somalia. Susan Chen, an undercover
CIA agent is sent to replace him. Her job is to ferret
out the murderer and stop the terror he wreaks on the
expatriate community. With the help of two Somalis she
befriends, she unravels the conspiracy behind a series
of murders of foreign aid workers. But the ultimate
goal of her assignment, saving the government from collapse,
proves to be an impossible mission.
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