Eight Days Author:Gabriel Fielding Set in an international zone on the northern tip of Africa. The zone is a law unto itself; violence and blackmail the order of the day. William Chance, a prison doctor and a recent convert to Catholicism, comes for a holiday into this highly charged, sinister and most un-Catholic atmosphere. He wants time and opportunity to adjust his mind an... more »d conscience to his conversion. Instead, he finds every precept challenged and tested; his very life endangered.« less