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Taking The Gap (The Hackings Of Africa, #1)

Gordon Orr

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Description:The books in this Trilogy contain scenes of a tasteful sexually-explicit nature.“TAKING THE GAP” is about a Nation in turmoil and characters locked in conflict: financial, marital, sexual, racial and armed. It could be you or members of your family, anywhere. Tomorrow, next week, next year, next century. You’ll have to take sides and at the end you will feel weary, and sad, but perhaps also a little hopeful.Don’t jump to conclusions though! Surprising threads lead from one volume to the next and will keep you guessing right to the end of the third.It is the first book in a three-part series “The Hackings of Africa” which follows the fortunes of the same cast of characters from the 1960s to the present day. In Rugby terms taking the gap means darting through a hole in the opposition defensive line. In the Rhodesian war it came to mean running away.All Three Novels are essentially Love Stories. The violent transition of White Rhodesia to Black Zimbabwe was one of the 20th Century’s most fascinating, tragic and unnecessary events and bore many similarities to the Vietnam Wars; insurrection against colonial rule exploited as a vehicle for a gigantic ideological clash. Many soldiers who fought in Vietnam gravitated to Rhodesia and Southern Africa to continue the fight against communism. These three books are about the affection of lovers; the love of citizens for their tribe or country; of parents for children; of comrades in arms. Unfortunately love inspires as many violent and destructive emotions as benign positive ones, so these stories are about men and women trying to behave well in impossible circumstances when human responses are often pared down to just simple survival.FROM THE COVER“Are you proud of killing your own people son?”“Yes sir. We Africans have been killing each other for thousands of years, we have always enjoyed it and now we get paid for it.”Ian and Connie Hacking are white settlers in the British colony of Rhodesia. They have built a good life alongside the black indigenous inhabitants.Social life is hectic, boozy and sport-orientated. They call nearby Mozambique the “Rhodesian Riviera” and frequent continental-style Portuguese restaurants across the border and sandy beaches on the coast.Gradually and reluctantly the tractable black population is dragged into full-scale armed insurrection by militant leaders hungry for political power. Their children are press-ganged to war and those of the white settlers are conscripted to meet the threat.An escalating conflict ensues that lasts twenty years and tramples individual aspirations. In this first book of a trilogy, greed, treachery and the pursuit of power see goodwill collapse, lives torn apart, lovers separated but hope always resurgent.BACKGROUNDJames Hacking, born into an affluent European family, has an early unsuitable love affair that continuously turns his life upside down. Dragged as a youth into a military role he performs well but finds increasingly morally questionable, he is pitted against former companions, forming enmities that plague him for generations. As the Hacking family disintegrates and his father is persecuted by the same desperate regime James is defending, many white Rhodesians begin “Taking The Gap.” Spencer Katsiru, a black classmate, commits an act of selfless bravery that sees him become an outcast and a hunted man in his own country. Their characters, loves, morality and aspirations are changed forever.ABOUT THE AUTHORGordon Orr is a novelist and keen mountaineer whose books are enjoyed on several continents. He has climbed in Africa, Britain, Europe, Canada and the Himalayas.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Taking The Gap (The Hackings Of Africa, #1). To get started finding Taking The Gap (The Hackings Of Africa, #1), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The books in this Trilogy contain scenes of a tasteful sexually-explicit nature.“TAKING THE GAP” is about a Nation in turmoil and characters locked in conflict: financial, marital, sexual, racial and armed. It could be you or members of your family, anywhere. Tomorrow, next week, next year, next century. You’ll have to take sides and at the end you will feel weary, and sad, but perhaps also a little hopeful.Don’t jump to conclusions though! Surprising threads lead from one volume to the next and will keep you guessing right to the end of the third.It is the first book in a three-part series “The Hackings of Africa” which follows the fortunes of the same cast of characters from the 1960s to the present day. In Rugby terms taking the gap means darting through a hole in the opposition defensive line. In the Rhodesian war it came to mean running away.All Three Novels are essentially Love Stories. The violent transition of White Rhodesia to Black Zimbabwe was one of the 20th Century’s most fascinating, tragic and unnecessary events and bore many similarities to the Vietnam Wars; insurrection against colonial rule exploited as a vehicle for a gigantic ideological clash. Many soldiers who fought in Vietnam gravitated to Rhodesia and Southern Africa to continue the fight against communism. These three books are about the affection of lovers; the love of citizens for their tribe or country; of parents for children; of comrades in arms. Unfortunately love inspires as many violent and destructive emotions as benign positive ones, so these stories are about men and women trying to behave well in impossible circumstances when human responses are often pared down to just simple survival.FROM THE COVER“Are you proud of killing your own people son?”“Yes sir. We Africans have been killing each other for thousands of years, we have always enjoyed it and now we get paid for it.”Ian and Connie Hacking are white settlers in the British colony of Rhodesia. They have built a good life alongside the black indigenous inhabitants.Social life is hectic, boozy and sport-orientated. They call nearby Mozambique the “Rhodesian Riviera” and frequent continental-style Portuguese restaurants across the border and sandy beaches on the coast.Gradually and reluctantly the tractable black population is dragged into full-scale armed insurrection by militant leaders hungry for political power. Their children are press-ganged to war and those of the white settlers are conscripted to meet the threat.An escalating conflict ensues that lasts twenty years and tramples individual aspirations. In this first book of a trilogy, greed, treachery and the pursuit of power see goodwill collapse, lives torn apart, lovers separated but hope always resurgent.BACKGROUNDJames Hacking, born into an affluent European family, has an early unsuitable love affair that continuously turns his life upside down. Dragged as a youth into a military role he performs well but finds increasingly morally questionable, he is pitted against former companions, forming enmities that plague him for generations. As the Hacking family disintegrates and his father is persecuted by the same desperate regime James is defending, many white Rhodesians begin “Taking The Gap.” Spencer Katsiru, a black classmate, commits an act of selfless bravery that sees him become an outcast and a hunted man in his own country. Their characters, loves, morality and aspirations are changed forever.ABOUT THE AUTHORGordon Orr is a novelist and keen mountaineer whose books are enjoyed on several continents. He has climbed in Africa, Britain, Europe, Canada and the Himalayas.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Taking The Gap (The Hackings Of Africa, #1). To get started finding Taking The Gap (The Hackings Of Africa, #1), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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