Crescent Moon

Mysticism, intrigue and love - all will be found in this novel set in a remote and largely unknown part of Africa at the outbreak of World War I. Two strangely opposite personalities are drawn together through danger and adventure against a background of devil worship. The author skilfully weaves his plot punctuated by the rhythmic drumbeat which heralds the appearance of the new moon. Mysterious and frightening, it is the signal of evil to the simple, browbeaten natives and takes over the mind of the naA_ve missionary who seeks to conquer the spirit of evil by faith in the power of goodness. Overall, there is the dominant figure of Godovius, part-German, part-Jew, settler in the home of the Waluguru tribe, whose evil nature is revealed in lust and desire.