Relentless Pursuit

SET IN COLONIAL SOUTHERN AFRICA, in Angola and SudWestAfrika (German South West Africa) circa 1904, "Relentless Pursuit" follows Werner von Dewitz and his adventures as the great European powers, England, France, Germany, Holland, Belgium and Spain ruthlessly pursue their empire building on the backs of their colonial people. In SudWestAfrika, imperial Germany, under Kaiser Wilhelm II, wages war against the Herero, an indigenous tribe who violently resent and resist the white man's invasion of their territory.Werner, a German Marine Lieutenant, is assigned to the German Intelligence Division and clandestinely enters Angola in the guise of a Portuguese manufacturing representative. Speaking English and Portuguese fluently, Werner ferrets out the gun-runners who supply the Herero and others with their arms, and seeks to destroy their impenetrable operation. After the Kunehamas revolt and massacre where 300 men are slaughtered, Werner's own band of followers is almost wiped out on the banks of the Kunene River.Gun-runners and their moonlight sailing ships, fire fights in Angola, and malaria do not deter Werner from his mission, who finds time during the intrigue and danger for a brief liaison with a beautiful young doctor.This riveting novel reads like an historical thriller, with romance and high adventure written by one of South Africa's finest writers - a book that only Peter Borchard could have written.Mr Borchard promises to continue this extraordinary saga with the approach of World War 1 which was also fought in the colony he so well knows.