Spoils - Limited Edition John Fusco and her increasingly distant husband

and her increasingly distant husband

When Patience Johnson meets preacher Sidrach Simmonds

His flight takes him from the unholy killing ground of Kongo to SS slave camps and on to war-torn Angola

But the secret that awaits them in the lost city is more dangerous still - as a legacy of theft

Spoils - Limited Edition John Fusco and her increasingly distant husband"Clear, authentic and beautifully written, Spoils is a book about war for people who dont like books about war. Van Reet gives us a thriller that is not a thriller, but a grave and fierce description of the moral battlefield behind the headlines from Iraq." (Anne Enright) "I read this with awe. Spoils is a harrowing and incredibly powerful debut which shows war in all its complexity and viciousness and which attempts to humanise it through