You Will See Fire: A Search for Justice in Kenya Contributor(s): Goffard, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 039307742X ISBN-13: 9780393077421 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: December 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Murder - General - History | Africa - East - History | Africa - West |
Dewey: 364.152 |
LCCN: 2011029509 |
Physical Information: 1.12" H x 6.41" W x 9.49" L (1.16 lbs) 336 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - East Africa - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents |
Review Citations: Library Journal 07/01/2011 pg. 56 Publishers Weekly 09/26/2011 Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2011 Booklist 12/01/2011 pg. 7 Library Journal 01/01/2012 pg. 115 |
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Publisher Description: Whether gunning down a warthog, raising the beams he'd hewn himself for a new church, or standing up for landless refugees and abused girls, Father John Kaiser was a figure larger than life. He was fierce in his commitments, devoted to the poor and displaced, and fearless--what some would call reckless--in the pursuit of justice. For this he was beloved by his parishioners, seen as a loose cannon by his superiors in the church, and despised by Kenya's strongmen under the tyrannical leadership of Daniel arap Moi. When Kaiser was discovered dead on a remote roadside in the bush, the FBI ruled it a suicide. Kenyans were sure he'd been murdered. In a new Kenya, post-Moi, it would fall to Charles Mbuthi Gathenji, a prominent dissident and the son of a man himself murdered for his beliefs, to find out what really happened to Father John Kaiser. |
Contributor Bio(s): Goffard, Christopher: - Christopher Goffard writes for the Los Angeles Times and lives in Southern California. |
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