A NEW ADVENTURE STORY

It is 1877. 

Jakob Klein, a liberal-minded Jewish pioneer from Bavaria, has been living in the small town of Rouxville in the Orange Free State in southern Africa for well over a decade.

He will try anything to support his wife and young family. His questionable business ethics often cause him to sail close to the wind. This time, he has sailed far too close, and his life has capsized. His dubious dealings have lost him his home and livelihood. His young family have had to leave him to seek refuge with relatives in the Cape Colony.

Now, he is in jail, awaiting transfer to Bloemfontein where the serious case against him is to be heard by the highest court in the land. With only his guards for company, he has plenty of time to wonder what sort of future fate holds for him and whether he will ever see his family again.

Read Jakob's story in ROGUE OF ROUXVILLE. It is an exciting tale of debt and deception based loosely on the life of a real person, and set mostly in the wilds of what was later to become the Union of South Africa.

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ALIWAL: my first novel

Henry Bergmann lives on the frontier of the Cape Colony in Aliwal North, the town he helped to establish in 1849.

He is the richest man in the town, and probably one of the wealthiest in the Colony. 

His integrity and concern for others has gained him positions of responsibility including managing the town's bank.

He meets a respected gold prospector, who invites him to join a venture that promises to yield rewards beyond his wildest expectations . 

Although he has enough already, he would like to use the promised riches to improve the prosperity of the town, to develop it into the pride of the Colony.

He accepts, travels north into the Transvaal, and becomes entwined in something that will lead him gradually, but inexorably, towards a tragic fate.

Fact and fiction are interwoven excitingly in ALIWAL, my first biographical novel.

ISBN: 978-1-4461-8322-9

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