Into the Mouth of the Lion

Angola, 2002. In the last days of a vicious civil war, it is a dangerous landscape rife with rebel soldiers, land mines, corruption and deception. A suspicious explosion kills a beloved nurse, while another humanitarian worker goes missing.

Lena Rodrigues, a young photographer, flies out to Angola's highlands to piece together the reasons behind her sister's disappearance. But will she have the strength to bear witness to the truth, before she gets entangled in the country's conflict for minerals and power?


Genre: Thriller

"A fine novel, deeply evocative of the devastated cities of the Angolan interior, choking with the displaced and the dying in the final days of that country s brutal civil war. It quite took me back, so much so that I found myself having arguments with characters over some of their security and operational choices. But this, I had to remind myself, was a fictional Angola, where love endures and there is a modicum of justice amidst all the expanse of inhumanity and corruption that Kyazze so meticulously depicts." - Aidan McQuade

"A.B. Kyazze brings to the story a photographer s eye, capturing the tragedy and beauty of the people caught up in Angola s civil war." - Joss Stirling