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Now that I was faced with reunion at last, inwardly I started
to fret. How did I look? Would she think I was still handsome
enough for my years or would my illness be obvious? Might she resent
my intrusion? Should I greet her with a kiss? Would I hug her?
What should be my opening line? Would it make her smile?
...Annie hadn’t mentioned her husband during our exchanges but now it was a pleasure to meet him at their home. Kakenya was tall and angular like most of his race. He dressed in the western way but it was clear that he’d not entirely forgotten his roots. The focal point of their living room was a wonderful painting of a Maasai herdsman attending his cattle, with Kilimanjaro resplendent as the backdrop...
Michael Conrad Wood continues his thrilling novel set in East Africa - a story as topical as today's headlines.
...‘Give the Browning an airing!’
Uhuru was maneuvered to starboard so that the gun could be deployed
without endangering our crew...
Nimrod and his crew are involved in a dramatic sea chase to recover their money.
Michael Conrad Wood continues his thrilling story set in East Africa.
...The boat was about twenty five feet in length. It was equipped with a single Yamaha engine. A tarpaulin cover was stretched over a rudimentary aluminium frame to provide cover from the sun. The hull of the vessel was royal blue. Across its full length was the single word which caused our dread: ‘POLICE.’...
Novelist Michael Conrad Wood continues his thrilling tale set in East Africa.
...“WE HAVE TAKEN THE ABDULLAHI GIRL. YOU CAN
HAVE HER BACK UNHARMED IF THE MOTHER HANDS
OVER THE KORANTENG MONEY. WE ARE NOT PATIENT
PEOPLE. A SECOND NOTE WILL BE DELIVERED TO THE
SCHOOL TEACHER TOMORROW WITH INSTRUCTIONS.”...
Nimrod and Amina return to their home in Somalia to discover that their daughter has been kidnapped.
Michael Conrad Wood continues his thrilling story.
...‘Where are the men?’ I shouted, flushed with happiness at the success of our trip to Kenya. I jumped waist deep into the warm Indian Ocean water, ready to secure the dhow’s lines...
But Amina and Nimrod have returned to their camp in Somalia to hear the worst possible news.
Novelist Michael Conrad Wood continues his thrillinhg tale.
We
each celebrated with a Fanta drink. The crew had had these chilling
in a box of ice which was also keeping some red snapper nice and
fresh for the next day’s supper. At home we were still not keen on
fishing inshore. As the wind filled our sail, we all whooped with delight.
Amina and Nimrod recruit a boy to draw their ransome money from the bank.
Michael Conrad Wood continues hius thrilling story set in East Africa.
...As we filled our stomachs with fine seafood pasta (which brought back distant memories of Rome), we plotted and planned how we would get our money out safely...
Nimrod and Amina travel to Malindi to collect ransome money.
Michael Conrad Wood continues his thrilling tale set in turbulent East Africa.
Amina and Nimrod travle to Malindi to collect a huge b undle of cash.
Michael Conrad Wood continues his dramatic tale set in East Africa.
...‘Okay. A man has been asking questions about you in Kaambooni.’...
Amina learns that Stewart Munro has travelled to Africa to seek her out.
Michael Conrad Wood continues his thrilling novel set in East Africa.
...Finally we were contacted over Uhuru’s radio by an intermediary. He was a smooth talking advocate with a
Nairobi-based law firm, Ndungu, Njoroge and Kwach Associates...
At last Nimrod's plans to raise cash for an environmental coastal clean-up seem to be about to suceed.
Novelist Michael Conrad Wood continues his gripping tale set in the turbulent political world of East Africa.
...That evening Nimrod called one of his conferences. We all sat
around a glowing fire, eager to hear what he had to say, for it was
clear that he had been deep in thought for much of the day.
‘We can still turn the situation to our advantage,’ he insisted,...
Michael Conrad Wood continues his enthralling novel which is set in present-day East Africa.
...From about half a mile away, we watched the Kofi Koranteng take on water. Herdiscomfort was perceptible. Slowly she began to list heavily to starboard...
Michael Conrad Wood continues his vividly exciting thriller set in East Africa.
After reading a story in The Times, Stewart Munro travels to Somalia in search of Amina.
Michael Conrad Wood continues his thrilling novel.
...The pirates’ spokesperson, Amina Abdullahi has reiterated that if their demand for 1 million euros is not met within the next two days, the MV Kofi Koranteng will be scuttled...
Michael Conrad Wood continues his superb thriller set in East Africa.
...‘Can I make a suggestion?’ the captain resumed.
‘Sure,’ said Nimrod.
‘It’s been a couple of days since you pirated my ship. You should
issue another press release reassuring the authorities that my crew...
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The Times newspaper reports on a shipping hijacking which had a high moral purpose.
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In his pursuit of justice for his people Nimrod captures a ship chartered by the World Food Programme.
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Stewart Munro decides to go to strife-torn Somalia in search of Amina, the love of his life 20 years ago.
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Nimrod and his followers ready a captured boat for action to right a terrible wrong.
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Nimrod the warrior concludes his account of a brilliantly organised raid.
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...Precisely on schedule two men were marched into the square and pushed
through the crowd onto the platform. They stumbled, which was not surprising as
each wore a hood over his head, secured around his neck with a piece of rope....
Nimrod and his crew witness two executions.
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The doughty warrior Nimrod comes up with a master plan to hit back at Westerners who are dumping toxic waste in the seas.
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"Dozens of oil drums had been washed in on the high tide. They rolled heavily back and forth in the shallows, the waves not strong enough to toss them onto the beach. Several of the boys fished one out and sat it upright in the sand. It was sealed but bore a skull and cross bones and the ominous
warning in Italian: DANGER: HAZARDOUS WASTE...
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Amina, now happily married to Nimrod, spares a thought for Stewart Munro.
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...‘I want more than a kiss, Nimrod Changeywo. I want your seed.
It is time I had your baby.’
I’d never in my life been so brazen with a man. My mother would
have been shocked. But needs must. I concluded there would be no
progress with my hoped for romance unless I made the first move...
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As Somalia descends into violence and chaos the beautiful Amina and her Masai companions settle in the comparative safety of a small coastal town near the Kenya border.
Michael Conrad Wood continues his thrilling novel of warfare and romance set in turbulent East Africa.
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As violence breaks out in Kenya Stewart Munro and his wife move to England where they find what turns out to be a temporary happiness.
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...Their diction; their information; their dress code; the holstered pistols.
These were no ordinary robbers as I had suspected all along...
Robbers smash their way into Stewart Munro's Nairobi home in the middle of the night.
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...While our daughter was off enjoying herself in the south-west of England, Jamila, Teapot and I moved house. I’d always wanted to return to Karen. We’d half heartedly looked at properties there from time to time but found nothing to our taste. One day I spotted an advertisement in The Standard which read simply: ‘For Sale: Old stone house in Karen. Needs work. Contact Joseph Kamaru...
All is going well with Stewart Munro's marriage and life - but are they going too well?
The beautiful Amina learns where her Masai rescuer Nimrod is interfering in the political affairs of her native land, Somalia.
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...The Maasai’s uncompromising stance ended Scallattari’s resistance. He marched across to a van parked close by on the quayside
and brought forth a cardboard box.
‘Ten thousand US dollars, as agreed,’ he said with a furious scowl.
‘I suppose you will want to count it.’...
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...‘Let me in,’ I screamed at him. Passers by stopped and stared at
the commotion. Finally I pushed past and invited Nimrod to follow
me inside. Uncle Jama it seemed, was entertaining in our house!...
Amina hears terrible news when she returns to the family home in strife-torn Mogadishu.
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...Twenty minutes after I had been locked away, Nimrod and his men crowded into the bar holding their guns in a ready to fire position. I’m sure the AK47s would have looked very intimidating. The sight of any gun barrel is enough to drive fear into ordinary men...
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Jamila, recovering from terrible injures received in a road accident, battles her way back to a full enthusiasm for life.
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Rescue is at hand for the beautiful Amina who has been kidnapped and is heading for a fate worse than death.
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Jamila survives the horrendous road accident but learns she has lost the baby she was carrying.
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The beautiful Amina sees a remote chance of escpaing from her new "owner'' - but her hopes are dashed.
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Stewart Munro learns at last what has happened to Jamila who has been involved in a major road accident on the Mombassa road.
Michael Conrad Wood continues his high-octane novel of romance, civil war and kidnap.
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...Dhows were a common form of transport in the Indian Ocean
as far south as Lamu and Mombasa, and to the north in the Gulf of Aden and beyond into the Red Sea. I knew them to be very seaworthy vessels. Little did I suspect that one day I would be part of a cargo! My assumption was that we were heading for Djibouti...
The beautiful Amina finds herself unexpectedly set ashore in a small Somali town.
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...What happened next shocked us all to the core. Even Yusuf Gabobe stood open-mouthed. Al-Rashid walked over to Nadifa and stroked her hair. She simpered at him and pressed herself against his rolls of flabby flesh. The ogre returned her smile but there was something ominous about it...
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Stewart Munro reads the headline on the front page of Kneya's newspaper The Daily Nation - a headline which brings the worst possible news!
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...When she made her appearance in the foyer all eyes turned towards her. She wore a full length, light brown halter neck dress pulled in at the waist by a wide glossy black belt, cut and angled upwards to add emphasis to her undoubted
femininity. The dress material spelled expensive. Her hair
which was straightened and had extensions, was tied back in a bunch but trained over her left shoulder. The woman looked magnificent...
Stewart Munro finds himself unable to resist the beautiful Shani Shabani.
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...Out plopped a beautiful girl. I say ‘beautiful’ in the loosest sense. Parents are usually besotted with their creations but in truth when the little thing emerged into this world, she looked more like Winston Churchill after a hard night overindulging his favourite tipple of whisky and soda...
Stewart Munro, now re-established in a comfortable life in Nairobi, begins to think it may be time to get married.
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The beautiful Amina hears of the terrible fate which her kidnappers have in store for her.
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...‘The harlot has killed our brother.’ ‘He must be avenged.’ ‘Let us flay her alive.’ There were a chorus of such murderous demands while I fought the constrictions in my windpipe and sucked in precious but insufficient oxygen, as if from a damaged straw...
But the beautiful Amina, forced to flee from her native Somalia, is determined to survive.
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...While he was busy with what he interpreted as the promised land, my arms were stretched wide, hands desperately searching in the dirt, covering the ground as subtly and methodically as I could.
That was the moment I became as demonised as this apology for a man. The blade lay where I hoped he had released it...
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...A jet of warm liquid in my face forced me back to consciousness. It was nothing I would want to drink in spite of a burning thirst and a terrible rawness in my throat. Someone was urinating on me. I tried to wriggle away but still tied, there was nowhere to go and I had to endure his filth...
The beautiful Amina, fleeing towards safety in Kenya, is captured by bandits.
Michael Conrad Wood continues his well-told tale set in East Africa.
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…I remember getting out of the car and reaching for a bottle of
water lying on the back seat. As I leaned in there were several ‘zzutt, zzzttt’ sounds and an immediate chaos of broken glass and splintered wood-work on the car’s dashboard. I screamed. My God, I realised I was being shot at!...
The beautiful Amina’s flight from strife-torn Somalia to Nairobi comes to a violent end.
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...Amina began to fade from my mind. At first I felt an enormous burden of guilt about this. Then I started to question whether I had ever truly loved her. Perhaps I’d confused the emotion with lust, for there’s no doubt that at the time, I had wanted her more than any other woman on earth. Simply put however, I became progressively more deeply committed to Jamila in the here and now...
Michael Conrad Wood continues his unmissable story of a modern love affair set in the unsettled political climate of East Africa.
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The beautiful Amina, fleeing towards Kenya from troubled Somalia, suddenly realises she is going to be short of cash.
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...Locking all the car doors, I settled down to sleep on the bench seat in the back of the Mercedes. For the entire night I imagined every sound outside, every breath of wind, every rustle among the thorn trees, to be someone meaning me harm. Several times I sat bolt upright in alarm and shouted ludicrous warnings to faceless spectres...
Beautiful Amina, now travelling alone, continues her flight from strife-torn Somalia, heading for Kenya.
Michael Conrad Wood continues his dramatic must-read tale.
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...There was a hullabaloo at the market entrance. Right at its centre were my parents. They were being pushed and prodded by a particularly aggressive young soldier, aided and abetted by a number of market women whom I guessed must somehow have recognised Papa and informed on him.
Everything after that seemed to happen in slow motion...
The beautiful Amina is shocked to see her parents arrested and driven away. She decides her only course of action is to flee from Somalia and seek refuge in Kenya.
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Stewart Munro flies to Mogadishu, there to discover that his beloved Amina has fled from the city.
Michael Conrad Wood continues his brilliant new novel set in the turbulent world of East African politics.
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...But what is the point of telling a story of half truths? I had barely stepped over the threshold when Jamila beckoned me into her bedroom...
Stewart Munro returns to his beloved Nairobi to discover unexpected pleasure.
Michael Conrad Wood continues his brilliant new novel.
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Amina and her family encounter a menacing group of Maasai armed with rifles as they head for the Kenya border, seeking refuge from strife-torn Somalia.
Michael Conrad Wood continues his brilliant new story.
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The beautiful Amina and her parents, forced to flee from their luxurious home in Mogadishu, head for the border with Kenya.
Michael Wood continues his story which is as topical as today's news headlines.
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...Our first and perhaps natural reaction was to do as Uncle Jama advised and head north. Then my father stopped the car on Via Hiram, a block away from the Presidential Palace, and asked that we pull ourselves together and start to think.
‘It might make the difference between survival and disaster,’ he began ominously...
The beautiful Amina and her family flee from Mogadishu knowing they may be arrested and perhaps killed.
Story teller supreme Michael Conrad Wood continues his gripping tale.
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…They found him hidden behind a huge air extraction
unit from where he shot three more soldiers (with a pistol) before
meeting God. His bullet ridden body was thrown like a rag doll from
the top floor, his bloody corpse left to rot in the street. My poor
Mursal. What a waste of his young life. I loved him so much…
The beautiful Amina tells of the death of her beloved brother as political unrest spills over into violence in Somalia.
Michael Conrad Wood continues his must-read novel.
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...A woman in a man’s world could only do so much for her country. I was tired of writing Hassan’s letters or endlessly drafting his speeches, to which his only contributions were
flamboyant signatures. Imagine that! A mere slip of a girl interpreting the President’s policies and turning these into clever passages for my Minister to regurgitate at public gatherings. I ended up quite drained, and increasingly frustrated about my poor remuneration...
Stewart Munro's girlfriend Amina is far from pleased with life in her homeland, Somalia.
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...It was impossible for me to confide in anyone that I’d been
stricken. I felt entirely alone, and had begun to endure the life of a leper, shunning contact with other people. On rare occasions when I was conscious enough to open my eyes to the wider world it seemed suddenly that radio and TV was full of discussion about AIDS...
...Can you imagine what it’s like to be told you have a virus which
as sure as eggs will kill you long before you’ve reached your prime?...
Stewart Munro, the central character in Michael Conrad Wood's brilliant new novel, plunges into the very depths of despair.
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...‘My name is Peter Goodwin, and I’m your counsellor,’ began the
spotty one.
‘Counsellor for what?’ I asked, rather too brashly.
‘We have the results of your blood test....'
Stewart Munro receives the terrifying news that he has become a member of an exclusive club which he has no wish to be part of.
Michael Conrad Wood continues his must-read story set in England and the Horn of Africa.
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Stewart Munro receives a letter which convinces him that he is no longer standing on firm ground.
Michael Conrad Wood continues his must-read new novel.
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Stewart Munro meets up with his wife Beverly in a London pub - and they both readily agree to a parting of the ways.
Michael Conrad Wood continues his superb new novel.
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After a phone call to the foreign office in London Stewart Munro becomes increasingly concerned for the safety of his friend Amina in strife-torn Somalia,
Michael Conrad Wood continues his novel of trouble and romance in East Africa.
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...However interesting these spits of history, they paled into insignificance for me personally, when I read the following one Sunday morning in The Observer:
‘In the Horn of Africa the Government of Somalia is locked in escalating
‘troubles’, to use the Irish term, with opponents of President Siad Barre’s regime.'...
Stewart Munro, sent back to London by his company, realises his ladyfriend Amina is in great danger.
Stewart Munro find himself flying back to London after an abrasive meeting with senior executives.
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...she greeted me with that glorious smile. She looked terrific. Her hair was tied back in plats knotted tightly together. She wore, for the first time I think, a glossy lipstick which emphasised perfectly the fullness of her mouth...
Cigarette salesman Stewart Munro realises he has fallen in love with the beautiful Amina.
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...It was like the start of a London marathon or hoards of football supporters heading towards the stadium. We
stood there for perhaps twenty minutes. People were pouring out of houses and converging from every street corner. There was an atmosphere of carnival.
‘Where are they going?’
‘I don’t think you’ll want to hear about it,’ Amina replied with unusual coyness...
Stewart Munro is enchanted by the beautiful and intelligxent Amina - but he has a lot to learn about Somalia.
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...I glanced around the Minister’s office. While mine was luxuriously appointed and rarely contained more than a handful of papers, his was completely overrun with files and dusty, tied bundles of correspondence of all shapes and sizes. These were heaped high, and covered not only the full area of his desk but also much of the floor space – to such an extent in fact that it was difficult to trace a path to a chair which Hassan casually indicated I should be seated in. My exaggerated
impression was that this room might have contained the
entire workings of the Somali Civil Service!...
Stewart Munro comes face to face with the man who can award him a lucrative deal.
Michael Conrad Wood continues his entertaining new novel.
Our hero learns that he is being posted to that blighted land, Somalia.
Master storyteller Michael Conrad Wood contiues his new novel.
...As I entered I detected a pungent aroma of perspiration, almost
stifling in its concentration. I was mildly surprised to see it was attached
to someone who could only be described as a hag-like painted
tart. What on earth could she be doing here, I asked myself...
The narrator of Michael Conrad Wood's brilliant new novel is summoned to his boss's office, there to find himself in an embarrassing situation.
...My customary watering hole was Nyangalika Nyama, a rough-neck establishment where one could more or less pick and choose. The bar was owned by an Englishman, which probably explained his alliterative if somewhat torturous use of Swahili. In those days I was employed by BAAT Kenya Ltd, the fag people (that’s British African Aromatic Tobacco, not the other lot). I smoked like a funnel. That was pretty much the only qualification I needed for the job. Nevertheless, and like daddy always advised, I worked hard so that I could play with equal enthusiasm...
Michael Conrad Wood's brilliant new novel draws you immediately into Nairobi nightlife.
Today we begin the serialisation of A Court Of Fowls, a new novel by Michael Conrad Wood.
Mike's vivid tale is set in Kenya and Somalia, places where he worked for a number of years.
His vivid tale brings you the real Africa. Don't miss future episodes every Monday in Open Writing.
