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American geologist Ty Campbell spends his days on the periphery of the Sahara's internecine warfare in Mali, dowsing for water and trying to forget his murdered wife. When Lila, an aid worker on the verge of emotional collapse, leads a convoy of African refugees into the Mali badlands, Ty's hermitage is shattered. In a desperate attempt to save the refugees, Ty and Lila make a Faustian pact with Bud van Sickle--the smiling face of a powerful multinational corporation--who is competing for the lucrative privilege of ridding the planet of nuclear waste. His solution? Bury it beneath the land claimed by the refugees. Ty finds himself pressed into service by Van Sickle and his company, Timbuktu Earthwealth, in order to save the refugees. As he is shuttled between commando training centers in Virginia, technocratic councils in Vienna, and the jungles of the Congo, the stakes escalate, and Lila and her refugees find themselves threatened by a growing civil war. Can Ty extricate himself from the center of ruinous conspiracy of personal and global proportions? Desert Burial probes the human connections that mock our illusion of a world under our control--and reveals how those connections ultimately redeem us. Drawn from Brian Littlefair's real-world experience, the novel is a fast-paced thriller told with extraordinary depth and intricacy.

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This is a tour de force of real-world events unfolding at a Ludlum-esque pace. As scary as it is relevant. --Jon Land, USA Today bestselling author I'm in awe of Brian Littlefair's Desert Burial. I kept having big-screen fantasies: Screenplay by George Orwell and Paul Bowles, directed by Stanley Kubrick. --Bob Shacochis, author, The Immaculate Invasion Thriller readers are probably the natural audience for this hair-raising novel, though admirers of 'literary' fiction will take to it. --Publishers Weekly

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BRIAN LITTLEFAIR is a consultant specializing in foreign direct investment who has worked with and advised foreign joint ventures, international financial institutions, and the federal government. He's worked pro bono with aid agencies, CSOs, and NGOs in economic development, food security, and human rights. For more information, visit https: //dissidentvoice.org/author/brianlittlefair.

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