Author(s): Jeffrey Lee

Fiction

In a small West African country, civil war is brewing. Thousands have already died but it's the savage killing of young British aid worker Miranda Williams that captures the media's attention. For disenchanted correspondent-turned-film-maker Peter Lucas, Miranda's death conjures up uneasy ghosts and now the Corporation want him to go back into the war zone to make a documentary about her. It should be straightforward: go in, shoot, and get out. Fast. But his ambitious assistant producer has other ideas for questions remain about how Miranda died. Suddenly, the conflict intensifies and Lucas and his crew are trapped inside the shell-scarred hotel that's become both sanctuary and ops centre for the world's media. Watching as these psychotics and adrenaline junkies manipulate human suffering into the stories the world wants to see, they begin to suspect that a very different kind of madness is growing in their midst. Explosive, intelligent and utterly compelling, Dog Daus is a thrilling, disturbing journey into the darkest recesses of the human soul.