Three Americans met and were challenged on the high, wild, lion-guarded Serengeti Plains of East Africa: a former white hunter, African-born of missionary parents, his life already torn by tragedy; a beautiful young California woman on pilgrimage from her father's sudden death; an ambitious scientist seeking signs of man's earliest origins.The challenge they face is terrorist atrocity and guerrilla warfare, deadly in its violence. It threatens Seth Crown's tourist camp. It threatens Robert Fuhrey's important paleontological dig at an ancient Serengeti gorge. It threatens the bond of passionate love welding Crown and Cassie Wendover. Before it is finished, it has caught fire in war between Tanzania and the Uganda of monstrous Idi Amin. Before it is finished, it hasbrought horror, but it has also brought a species of redemption to all of their lives.