Dark Heart (2012)
“‘I don’t even know why I’m here.’ ‘In the room or in the country?’ he breathed back with a wry, lopsided grin.
‘Take your pick,’ she mouthed, failing to see the funny side.
The pair of them looked around the table, with Minister Ngama at the head. They were in one of the conference rooms beside his breathtaking office in the new complex of buildings that stood where the shanty town had stood, three years earlier, on the south-east outskirts of the city.
The tall window behind Ngama showed the d...elta and the sea beyond it outlined against a hard blue early-morning sky. Shipping came and went busily across the bay. Only Caleb Maina’s ex-command was immobile, tethered to the dockside, waiting to be towed into dry dock for repair, sitting oddly just behind the shoulder of the man who sacked its commander. Its slim grey bows like the point of a dagger waiting to stab him in the back.
In the room, the ministers’ team of lawyers, geologists, oil men, shipping experts and civil servants sat down the long table to their right.MoreLess
‘Take your pick,’ she mouthed, failing to see the funny side.
The pair of them looked around the table, with Minister Ngama at the head. They were in one of the conference rooms beside his breathtaking office in the new complex of buildings that stood where the shanty town had stood, three years earlier, on the south-east outskirts of the city.
The tall window behind Ngama showed the d...elta and the sea beyond it outlined against a hard blue early-morning sky. Shipping came and went busily across the bay. Only Caleb Maina’s ex-command was immobile, tethered to the dockside, waiting to be towed into dry dock for repair, sitting oddly just behind the shoulder of the man who sacked its commander. Its slim grey bows like the point of a dagger waiting to stab him in the back.
In the room, the ministers’ team of lawyers, geologists, oil men, shipping experts and civil servants sat down the long table to their right.MoreLess
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