Consul at Sunset

by HANLEY G

She was there...to arouse his desire. More than ever now, Aurella wanted the white man's hands on her body. She stood in the shadows watching him, dreaming of the pleasure she would give him...and of the cruel death she would bring to her lover of the night before... From inside front Death and Desire. It was a woman named Aurella who poisoned the white men who came as conquerors to El Ashang--sun-baked land of age-old hatreds and frantic blood lusts. And in the fervid nights, she tormented them; while they were decayed by loneliness and grotesque savagery. Here is the novel of tremendous power about the moral disintegration of English officals under the pressure of life at a desolute African outpost...a brillant commentary on the last days of colonialism.

Genres: Fiction

Paperback

Published February 1, 1988

Reviews

[Mark Thuell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Warning. Contains extreme racist and misogynistic language that wouldn’t be printed in this day and age. This brutal novel, set in the twilight of empire, is about the morality of British Imperialism and its brilliance stems from its gifted author obviously experiencing it first hand. Apart from a vast array of’savages’ and their precious camels the three main characters are representative of the military enforcer, the imperial political boss and the young modern officer (probably the Author) who abhors it and sees the writing on the wall. Well worth a read.

[Rose Cimarron]

Don't bother.