The Paths of Glory

About the Book

The Paths of Glory is the third and final volume of a trilogy that began with to seek a newer world and continued with the second volume, remembrance of things past. In the paths of glory, Doe Duvalier Teah sets in motion a chain of events as terrifying as they are unpredictable. He loses two times in a presidential election won by Dr. Felix Kamara. Teah and his accomplices attack the cruise liner in which president Felix Kamara and his entourage are holidaying. He hates president Kamara as much as he admires him. Captain Derek Wilson, the key witness, is called in to a case which promises to be as sensitive as it is intriguing. At a trial, Teah and his accomplices are found guilty of murder, sedition and high treason. Consequently, they are condemned to death. In this streamlined novel, Dr. Robert h. Brown exposes the darker recesses of a criminal’s mindset, which have long lain hidden beneath a veneer of a prosperous gentility.

About the Author

Robert h. Brown, who hails from southeastern Liberia, proved an excellent student at Maryland college of Our Lady of Fatima (high school department) and received a scholarship from the holy cross fathers to study at stone hill college in Massachusetts, where he earned a b. A. In English. He worked as a research officer before entering Howard University in Washington, d. C, where he was awarded an m. A. He has also earned an m. A. In language & literature: English for speakers of other languages from the University of London, and a ph. D. In Language & Linguistics from the University of Essex in England. He attended the international vacation course in English language & linguistics held at the Cambridge centre for languages, Sawston hall, and at Selwyn college, university of Cambridge, during the summer of 1984. Dr. Brown taught English, religion and reading at St. Hugh’s Roman Catholic school in Huntington station, long island, New York, in 1973. He taught English at a number of colleges in England. Dr. Brown also taught as an assistant professor of English in the University of Liberia for several years. He has published fiction in fourteen volumes of short story international in New York. His articles and fiction have appeared in African arts and the Liberian studies journal in the United States. The BBC world service has also broadcast his work. Dr. Brown’s first collection of short stories, after long silence and other Liberian stories was published in New York in 1979. His novel, to seek a newer world, was published by author house in Bloomington, Indiana, in 2008. His second novel, remembrance of things past, was also published by author house in 2009.