When Robert Mugabe instigated the third chimurenga (war) at the turn of the century, he unleashed thousands of war veterans onto the white farmlands in Zimbabwe and had the farmers evicted. During the course of this 'war' eleven farmers were killed. Many of them suffered indescribable torture and mutilation before dying. The killers of one farmer, David Stevens, drank his blood after torturing him to death. To date no one has been brought before a court of law in that country to account for the murders. This book is dedicated to my friend David Stevens and to those who lost their lives.
What is just to one person seems gross injustice to another. What one group considers evil is another's good. Is there no wrong, no right beyond the impasse of conflicting perceptions? When ordinary men and women – beyond political loyalties, beyond inherited culture, beyond ideologies and beliefs – see and know that certain kinds of deeds go unpunished, that the claims of justice and the rule of law are unheeded, then it is that some begin to dream that good will triumph over evil, a shining knight save the maiden, a new sheriff clean up the town, that sanity and truth will emerge from the primal terror that stalks the land.

This author is a dreamer .....