The Wrong Man

About the Book

A very ordinary man wakes up in an African police cell. He has no idea how he got there, nor why he’s there. He’s tortured for information about which he has no idea, and then he’s threatened with execution. When British Consular staff ignore his pleas for help because of a trade deal, he realizes that the only person who is going to help him, is himself. It’s towards the end of the 1980s and all this is happening in the middle of a very unstable Zaire that is about to descend into civil war. He knows that to survive, he must escape. This he does, but only by killing some of his guards in the process. He on foot, in the middle of nowhere and everyone wants him dead; and now he must find out why he’s Zaire’s Public Enemy No1, if he wants to clear his name and return to a normal life.

About the Author

Hamish Clarke is the pseudonym of the author (that's me!) and it's about him This is NOT an autobiography, NOR is it based on real events Hamish Clarke is an insurance broker who has never left Nottingham, but he has had the opportunity to meet a number of people who have been involved in unusual activities in sub-equatorial Africa, and elsewhere. The information given by these people resulted in the background which led to this story. You can add that that as a result of his contacts, he (that's me) has written a manual on how to avoid violence in Africa, (which is true)