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Rebellious, exuberant youth collide with newly independent Africa. Racial hatred lights the fuse that propels Jake Ries and Karl Appel to the African killing fields, where they flee fanatics who massacre their way to power. DRINKING FROM THE STREAM is the story of Jake and Karl's erratic, fateful course hitchhiking across Ethiopia and East...

This is political fiction from the front lines. Based on lived experience, the authentic international narratives in WORLD OF WORLDS wrestle with the tumultuous years 1968-1981, but they are painfully, ironically current. This is an unusually evocative and immersive work.

The characters, Americans mostly—tough, rebellious youth, far from home, on...

FOREWORD

Until almost the end of the 1980s, Paraguay and General Alfredo Stroessner were perceived as virtually synonymous in the minds of a whole generation. Indeed, this dictator often eclipsed the small, inland South American country over which he ruled for more than a third of a century. Yet, in the long run, the most important events in...

CHAPTER 1. HISTORICAL SETTING Richard S. Sacks