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Dolph Lundgren stars as Christian Erickson, the leader of a crew of demolition experts trained to disarm mine fields. After his young son dies in a minefield during a rebel attack, Erickson drops out of sight and later resurfaces in war-torn Angola. There he meets Michelle Wyatt (Claire Stansfield), another bomb specialist who recruits Erickson to help expose a group of international terrorists. The two aren't quite prepared for the surprising opponent...

"Zachary Lazar's powerful and important novel was inspired by a passion play, The Life of Jesus Christ, he witnessed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. As someone who writes "fiction, nonfiction, sometimes a hybrid of both," the narrator of Vengeance, a character much like Lazar himself, tries to accurately view a world he knows is "beyond the limits of my small understanding." In particular, he tries to unravel the truth behind the supposed...

The world's most acclaimed travel writer journeys through western Africa from Cape Town to the Congo.

When Kyle Ryan--always the rebel in a family full of strong personalities--vanishes during an assignment in a politically unstable African nation, the stakes couldn't be higher. His warning to the Defense Intelligence Agency, "We're on the wrong side of history," suggests he uncovered something explosive. Now the country is sliding toward a coup, and Kyle's father, the President of the United States, faces an impossible choice: protect national interests...

Reveals the role played by the illicit diamond trade in funding Africa's brutal civil wars, particularly in Sierra Leone and Angola.

"An international incident may fracture the Ryan family. Even in a family of strong individualists like the Ryans, Kyle has stood out as a lone wolf. For years he's gone his own way, joining the DIA rather than the CIA, and disagreeing with his father's politics. Now he's missing in an African country on the brink of a coup. His last message to his handlers, 'We're on the wrong side of history.' His father, the President of the United States, is about...

"In the tradition of books by Albert Woodfox and Angela Davis, this gripping memoir of a wrongful conviction and time spent on death row in Angola prison shows how incarcerated people care for each other and fight for justice" -- Provided by publisher. "In 1975, seventeen-year-old Gary Tyler was sent to Angola prison to die. A year earlier, he had been wrongfully charged with the killing of a white teenager and found guilty by an all-white jury,...