Description: Murder, Witchcraft and the Killing of Wildlife : Memoirs of a Police Officer in the Heart of Africa, Hardcover by Matthews, Stephen R., ISBN 1526764075, ISBN-13 9781526764072, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Features stories of encounters with African Presidents, including the occasion when the author prevented a potential assassination attempt on President Kaunda's life. The author also describes, in dramatic detail, the relentless dangers of the political situation in Africa, with murders, petrol bombs, kidnappings and major fraud cases all occurring during his time was the time of the Belgian Congo debacle where ethnic cleansing coincided with Steve's first police posting near the Northern Rhodesia border with the Congo, at the age of 21. He graphically describes being knifed, ambushed, stoned, wounded by bow and arrow and shotgun and had his hand broken several saved the life of President Kaunda from a potential assassination attempt and acted as a driver and bodyguard to President Tsombe of the breakaway state of Katanga. Steve was solely responsible for exposing and tracking down a dangerous British Army deserter and communist spy working in the Congo and Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), seeing him neutralized and his operation disbanded. Throughout th, he gives full credit to his African police colleagues for their immense courage, humor, loyalty and total will standout because it depicts unique, true stories of dealing with witchcraft murders and cannibalism in all its repugnant forms. Steve, personally thwarted an ambush on a group of famous Congo mercenaries known as the Wild Geese. He describes incidents of black magic, kidnapping, arson, gunrunning and people trafficking. He successfully detected the first computer fraud in the territory, and later for the first time, brought back a European fugitive in a series of fraud cases to face justice, from the atrocious apartheid country of South Africa; of being given a government award for his part in combatting the slaughter of wildlife and in taking part in the search for the downed aircraft of the United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld – still the subject of much controversy 's life was saved several times by his courageous Doberman, Alex regarded as a witch doctor by local tribes. This is the true, action-packed, unadulterated stories of those frantic and dangerous years, where a young police inspector found himself confronted by fearsome actions and events well beyond his complete understanding while serving in the elite police force in Northern Rhodesia now Zambia, which was then a British Protectorate prior to has strived not to duplicate any of these true stories, which provides an indication of just how involved and energizes his dedicated years of service really were. Nevertheless, he pushed on regardless, with the realization that he was doing an important and necessary job for the benefit of the unprivileged peoples of the country; yet the police were fighting on two fronts, trying to protect the vulnerable citizens and at the same time endeavoring to stop the slaughter of the country's wildlife.
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Book Title: Murder, Witchcraft and the Killing of Wildlife : Police Investigations at the Heart of Africa
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books The Limited
Publication Year: 2020
Topic: Witchcraft (See Also Religion / Wicca), Africa / South / General, Animals / Wildlife, General, Law Enforcement, Environmentalists & Naturalists
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Nature, Body, Mind & Spirit, Political Science, True Crime, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author: Stephen R. Matthews, Stephen Rabey Matthews
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
