The hunters
Gordon, Kat, 1984-2018
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Theo Miller is fourteen years old, bright and ambitious, when he steps off the train into the simmering heat and uproar of 1920s Nairobi. Neither he, nor his earnest younger sister Maud, is prepared for the turbulent mix of joy and pain their new life in Kenya will bring. Their father is Director of Kenyan Railways, a role it is assumed Theo will inherit. But when he meets enchanting American heiress Sylvie de Croÿ and her charismatic, reckless companion, Freddie Hamilton, his aspirations turn in an instant. Sylvie and Freddie's charm is magnetic and Theo is welcomed into the heart of their inner circle: rich, glamourous expatriates, infamous for their hedonistic lifestyles. Yet behind their intoxicating allure lies a more powerful cocktail of lust, betrayal, deceit and violence that he realises he cannot avoid. As dark clouds gather over Kenya's future and his own, he must find a way back to his family, to Maud, before it is too late.
The hunters / Kat Gordon.
Gordon, Kat, 1984-, author
London : The Borough Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.©2018
360 pages ; 23 cm.
9780008253073 (paperback)9780008253066 (hardback)
823.92
English
Teenage boys -- FictionNineteen twenties -- FictionImperialism -- Kenya -- FictionRailroad construction workers -- Kenya -- FictionBrothers and sisters -- Kenya -- FictionAliens -- Kenya -- FictionComing of age -- FictionKenya -- Race relations -- FictionKenya -- Social life and customs -- 1895-1963 -- Fiction
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Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | GORD | Available |