MIDNIGHT SUN is a tightly plotted novel chronicling a bloody coup in a small African nation undergoing re-colonization. Jungle-based rebels battle with a Khadafy-style dictator over control of the country’s mineral wealth while French and American agents try to steer the outcome to the advantage of Western banking elites. This is a realistic tale of uprooted people fighting for control of a haunted landscape; MIDNIGHT SUN reads like a movie because the pace of events in contemporary Africa is so unrelenting.