The Gathering Darkness

"As he stared into the dark silence, peering above the sandbags out past the security fence and down the driveway, a flash of lightning lit up the yard. In that brief millisecond of daylight there appeared to be a man standing in the driveway by the front gate. George felt his heart start to race and a cold chill run through his body. He continued looking, searching for some movement, anything, but it was too dark to see a thing and then the lightning flashed again. This time he could see them, three men coming quickly up the driveway with more following, there was no mistaking it." The winds of change were blowing down on Mozambique from the north. When Tanzania won its independence, few doubted that Mozambique would be next. Peter McKinley, the younger of two brothers, had survived his struggles against the African bush, family, love, and a greedy neighbor, but just when he was about to realize his dreams, the dark clouds of a civil war began to appear on the horizon - a war that threatened to crush him and everyone he loved.