Beyond Bojador Author:Charles Mercer A tale of a modern-day U.S. diplomat with a secretive ancestry of African slave trading. Judson Lathrop, who just returned from a State Department tour of Africa, is reaching the climax of his diplomatic career. He is on the verge of leaving his wife for a lovely Belgian anthropologist who is also deeply involved with the African continent. Movi... more »ng between the guilty past and the guilt-infested present, this richly textured novel offers a tough, sophisticated, and uncompromising analysis of man in conflict with himself. Exploring universally complex and turbulent emotions, Beyond Bojador is a totally engrossing drama with vital implications for the present day.« less