T'sion - the Ark of the Covenant, palpable evidence of a God's promise to Man - and gift to Ethiopia.
In Berlin, 1947, Mikael Desta, an African war hero, battles the ingrained racism of his European allies to win the extradition of Paul Arendt, who seven years earlier, in occupied Ethiopia, tortured and killed Mikael's lover.
His goal is not only justice for the murdered woman, but the possession of evidence which he hopes will document other fascist atrocities in his home land.
The unexpected reappearance of a woman claiming to be Paul's victim, Lily, throws an uncomfortable new light on events in Ethiopia in 1939-40 and Mikael's own complicity in the massacre which brought these three individuals together and led to Lily's disappearance from History..
"When I was cast in the pit I pondered over the folly of the Kings of the World, and I asked, ,in what doth the greatness of kings consist? Is it in the multitude of soldiers, or in the splendour of worldly possessions, or in extent of rule over cities and towns?
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