Money Blood and Conscience | Ethiopian Democracy Revolution | Novel

This year’s most exciting historical thriller.

An ancient land. An impossible love. ​A friendship betrayed. The fate of a nation hanging in the balance…

Reviewers love Money, Blood, and Conscience!

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“I COULD NOT PUT THE BOOK DOWN.”

– Barbara Basbanes, Voting Member, National Book Critics Circle

“THE MOST SEARING ACCOUNT OF CONTEMPORARY EVIL SINCE ‘UNCLE TOM’S CABIN.'”

– Jack Healey, Director, Amnesty International USA (ret.)

“A MASTERFUL LITERARY THRILLER.”

– Bill Bach, U.S. Foreign Service (ret.)

“ABSOLUTELY COMPELLING.”

– Ludger Schadomsky, Head of Amharic/Ethiopian & Horn of Africa Service, Deutsche Welle

“DEFTLY CRAFTED AND INHERENTLY RIVETING. EXTRAORDINARILY UNIQUE AND UNRESERVEDLY RECOMMENDED.”

– James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief, The Midwest Book Review

“HITS THE BALL OUT OF THE PARK.”

– Nelson Kieff, Major, US Army Military Intelligence Corps (ret.)

“DAVID STEINMAN RAISES DEEPLY TROUBLING QUESTIONS…HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!”

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“STEINMAN IS OUR VOICE. OUR FREEDOM FIGHTER.”

-Tekle Yeshaw, Author, The Amhara Genocide

“THIS WILL BE ON MY DICTATOR NOVEL SYLLABUS”

– Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California Irvine

An idealistic American TV producer starts a charity for famine victims amid Ethiopia’s civil war…”You’re not in California here,” Ethiopia’s rebel leader-turned-prime minister Meles Zenawi reminds him. “This is a different world.”

In 1993, a prince and princess from Ethiopia’s 2,500-year-old Solomonic Dynasty reached out to an international revolutionary who’d played a behind-the-scenes role in the overthrow of Haiti’s notorious “Baby Doc” Duvalier. Could he help free Ethiopia’s most famous political prisoner and liberate its people from a reign of terror?

Now that revolutionary, David Steinman, has drawn on his extraordinary, real-life adventure as an adviser to Ethiopia’s democracy revolution to write a novel about Ethiopia’s present-day struggle for freedom. Part investigative journalism and part parable, Money, Blood and Conscience tells the story of a Hollywood executive’s love affair with an Ethiopian guerrilla fighter during Ethiopia’s civil war and the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front dictatorship that followed.

This highly acclaimed historical novel depicts the cover-up of a holocaust and raises questions about the ends and means of Western policy in shadowy places. Money, Blood and Conscience superbly portrays the fight by the world’s poorest for food and justice, drawing the reader into a magnificent, heartbreaking crusade for human dignity.

Genres: Literary fiction; contemporary historical novel; historical thriller; multicultural romance; protest novel; social impact; political thriller; dictator novel. For adults 18+.

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