The Rhodesian

A gramophone rattles out a tune beneath the Zimbabwe ruins—until news from England silences the camp: King Edward is dead, and Major Carew has not heard.

In early twentieth-century Southern Rhodesia, a small police camp stands beside the ancient walls of Zimbabwe, far from the country whose news its men await. Carew returns from a trek through distant kraals to learn that the King has been dead for a fortnight. The loss hits him with the force of exile: he has missed the mourning of his countrymen, and the wilderness suddenly feels like a prison between him and home. Beyond the camp, the ruins keep their secrets, while the lives of two English cousins are beginning to turn toward Africa. What will Carew—and they—find waiting on the far side of that distance?

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