Frank Grabowski påtager sig endnu engang en udfordrende konsulentopgave for medicinalvarefirmaet, Rockwell-Levy, hvor han skal besøge tre centralafrikanske lande. Med på rejsen til Afrika er Franks hustru, Solange, og deres lille datter, som skal holde ferie hos familien i Cameroun, mens Frank fortsætter ud på sin mission.
Samtidig får Darren Chapman, der flyver som kaptajn for flyselskabet Sahel Air, kidnappet sin datter. Fra en bevæbnet kidnapper modtager han instrukser om en mistænkelig og ubehagelig handling, han skal udføre på en flyvning fra Abuja til N’Djamena for at få sin datter tilbage i god behold.
Med ombord på netop det fly er Frank, og han må naturligvis følge med, da Darren bliver tvunget til at lande flyet i en forladt lufthavn i et øde område af Sahel. Snart er både passagerer og besætning gidsler overladt til en uvis skæbne, og det står hurtigt klart for dem, at de ikke kan forvente hjælp udefra. Deres eneste chance er at kaste sig ud i et dødsensfarligt opgør med deres gidseltagere.
Kim H. Rasmussen was born in Denmark in 1957 and started his career as a shipping trainee with The East Asiatic Company in 1977. From 1991 to 2012 and again in 2015-2017 he lived and worked – primarily as a managing director of private companies – in Nigeria (1998-2011), Ivory Coast (1991-1995), Tanzania (1995-1998) and Ghana (2011-2012.
From 1998 to 2006 he was the managing director of the dairy company, Fan Milk, Nigeria during which time he lived in Ibadan. He then changed jobs and became regional director of Vestergaard with the responsibility of selling long-lasting insecticide treated mosquito nets in Nigeria and 8 other West and Central African countries until 2011.
These experiences have given Kim H. Rasmussen a solid knowledge of life on the African continent and particularly how to be successful in a very different – and sometimes extremely challenging or even corrupt – business environment.
He is now based in Denmark and since 2018 he has concentrated fully on his work as an author and public speaker.