Your father is alive...

Those four words irrevocably changed Leonie Lincoln's whole conception of her past. She had to find him, talk to him--discover the hidden "whys" about herself.

But however remote West Africa seemed in England, when she got there some things were surprisingly immediate--like the threat of tribal war and domineering foreign correspondents.

"Take some advice, " Greg Thornton told her when he learned about her mission. "Fly back to England. There are all manner of dangers in the jungle.... "