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Jed’s new home, Lesotho, is a country nearing collapse from crippling drought and whispers of revolution. After Jed teaches his host-brother and confidant Tsediso how to grow a high-grade marijuana, Tsediso disappears. Abandoning his CARE work, Jed’s search leads to South Africa—from dangerous laborer flats to the city morgue, from city hospitals to shady bars. He finally learns that Tsediso is languishing in prison where beatings and abuse have left him a shell of a man. Desperate, Jed seeks help from the one man Tsediso has told him never to contact—Ernest Ntiska, a crooked associate of Tsediso’s who is also aiding the opposition forces in Lesotho. With Ntsika’s blood-money and the help of a corrupt cop, Johann Luyt, Jed buys Tsediso’s freedom, but in the process saddles Tsediso with crippling debt. The pair returns to Lesotho just as rebels seize the government and the violence convulses the country. Their already tenuous loyalties are tested, and when Luyt shows up in the village in the midst of a violent storm, Jed must choose between saving himself or his brother.
