The Garden of Burning Sand: A Novel - Softcover

Lusaka, Zambia. Zoe Fleming, a young, idealistic American lawyer working with an NGO combatting child sexual assault, is called in to help when an adolescent girl is brutally attacked. The girl’s identity is a mystery. Where did she come from? Was the attack a random street crime or a premeditated act?

A betrayal in Zoe’s past drives her to find the perpetrator and she forms an alliance with Joseph Kabuta, a Zambian police officer. Their search takes them from Lusaka’s roughest neighborhoods to the wild waters of Victoria Falls, and from the AIDS-stricken streets of Johannesburg to the matchless splendor of Cape Town.

As the investigation builds to a climax, threatening to send shockwaves through Zambian society, Zoe is forced to radically reshape her assumptions about love, loyalty, family, and, especially, the meaning of justice.

Corban Addison is the international bestselling author of A Walk Across the Sun, The Garden of Burning Sand, A Harvest of Thorns, and The Tears of Dark Water, which won the inaugural Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. His novels have been published in over 25 countries. An attorney, activist, and world traveler, he is a supporter of humanitarian and social justice causes around the world. He lives with his wife and children in Virginia.

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