Fishing for Crocodiles Author:Peter Lawrence Two African boys, Rex and Landilane, one white and one black, run away from home and embark on an impossible rock ?n roll pilgrimage ? a journey which propels them through the wild heart of Central Africa. They come face to face with the political, social and racial revolutions which will transform their homeland and bring an abrupt end to... more » their close friendship. The story is told from Rex?s point of view. Forty years on, he?s a displaced and somewhat deadened Los Angeles screenwriter. He walks out on his career and returns to the remote corner of Zambia where he grew up. There he searches for his childhood friend and, perhaps, his own myth; and there he comes face to face with the crocodile which he and Landilane caught and attempted to kill all those years ago. Perhaps that ancient reptile holds the key to everything that has happened to both boys since then. Fishing for Crocodiles is written with great honesty and a deep passion for Africa. The images of time and place come to life vividly and the boys? friendship, which reaches across all racial, economic and social boundaries, is drawn with love and respect but without sentimentality. Fishing for Crocodiles is both a coming of age story, and a search for lost times. It defies easy classification, and is all the more interesting for that. Dramatic, funny, moving and evocative, this novel should not be missed.« less