#6 in the “MAXIM GUNN” series

When Maxim Gunn was asked by his old friend, the Emir of Ladi to come to his help in the far north of Nigeria, the last thing he expected to find was a resurrection of the infamous Leopard Men. But what was their purpose other than to spread fear and terrorism? It didn’t make sense until someone from his past, an ex-KGB officer, shot at him. And then the Emir’s security guards caught and questioned a man who gave them a name, and it all started to make sense. Magunta, the Master Criminal who first appeared in THE CHAOS PROJECT, plans to take over West Africa by resurrecting the Leopard Men and re-establishing the old Kingdom of Songhai. Fear is his key, and the Great Black Leopard his weapon. Gunn tracks the leopard to its lair in the ill-omened Waziri Rock, a great volcanic finger that stands out from the Ladi plain, and that’s when the trouble really starts.