{"product_id":"9780932863492","title":"Where Witch Birds Fly","description":"In the twilight of the Cold War, a strange and horrific civil war erupted in Sierra Leone that would ultimately lead to a UN War Crimes Tribunal for Crimes Against Humanity.\u003cp\u003eWhere Witch Birds Fly captures the toxic brew of forces at play in the small West African country-Big Oil, Big Diamonds, competing outside powers, foreign mercenaries, and the local dominant Lebanese Christian trading community--all intriguing to pillage the African population's assets, degrading and destroying its chances for development to the point that a brutal insurrection breaks out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere amid the tumult, an African-American international lawyer comes face to face with all that he is, and all that he has become. Many years enjoyment of the accoutrements of professional success-sharp clothes, fast cars, and flashy white women-have left Richard White feeling troubled and alone. Long-term psychoanalysis has brought no peace. He is wrestling with an identity crisis brought on by rejection of his black, lower-class background, and estrangement from his family and community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhite first arrives in Sierra Leone during the Cold War on a mission to collect a forty million dollar oil debt owed by the local Freetown refinery. There, even as he is swept into the ex-patriate community's bacchanal, his pursuit of an ancestral linkage to the country via the slave trade begins. He returns a second time, post-Cold War, representing Lebanese interests in the largely illicit diamond trade, only to be kidnapped and held for ransom by Foday Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe anguish of Sierra Leone will change Richard White's life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clarity Press, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47034469220592,"sku":"9780932863492","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780932863492_p0.jpg?v=1763867454","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780932863492","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}