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Karas Mountains, Namibia, the present dayAnja lowered her iPad. ‘My battery is nearly dead.’
Nick contemplated the barren plateau below them. He tried to imagine shells bursting, machine guns firing and wily rebel horsemen disappearing along hidden trails. Namibia today was empty and peaceful; it was almost impossible to imagine the country at war, but of course it had been during the latter years of the twentieth century, in an equally bloody struggle for independence.
For now there was silence.
‘Do you know much about this Dr Peter Kohl?’ Nick asked, after a while.
‘Yes. He has been part of my research for some time. He and his first wife, Claire Martin, bred horses, as well as owning three cattle farms, though it seems most of their horses went to the war effort. Aft
