describes the Mau Mau Uprising by Kenyan rebels against British rule. The novel drew from the author's personal knowledge and experiences on safari in Africa, and was adapted into a 1957 film, Something of Value. Uhuru, a novel with a similar theme, but not intended to be a sequel, was published in 1962. "Uhuru" is the Swahili word for freedom. The book apparently libeled a particular politician in Kenya, and while Ruark was in Nairobi after its publication, staying at the New Stanley Hotel, he learned that a law suit had been filed against him by this politician. Before he could be served papers, however, he was tipped off, and he fled overnight to South Africa by air. He had intended to write a final book in the series with the working title of "A Long View From a Tall Hill," but this never materialized. Last years After his first half dozen books or so, Ruark continued to write, though few of his later novels matched his earlier successes. In 1960, after a bittersweet visit to his hometown of Wilmington, North Carolina, Ruark left the U.S. for good. He lived in London and Barcelona, before settling in Sant Antoni de Calonge in Catalunya, Spain. Shortly before his death, he wrote a final article which later appeared in Playboy and was titled "Nothing Works and Nobody Cares." He died in London, England, on July 1, 1965, of cirrhosis of the liver brought on by alcoholism. His last novel, The Honey Badger, exemplified the condition of the author at this time in his life. The book was published posthumously, as was Use Enough Gun, which is essentially a collection of excerpts from his earlier works. More notable are the two collections published by McIntosh and Casada, which are representative of the author's finest work. Robert Ruark is buried in Palamós in the Province of Girona in Catalunya, Spain. Bibliography Grenadine Etching (1947) I Didn't Know It Was Loaded (1949) One for the Road (1949) Grenadine's Spawn (1952) Horn of the Hunter (1953) Something of Value (1955) The Old Man and the Boy (1957) Poor No More (1959) The Old Man's Boy Grows Older (1961) Uhuru (1962) The Honey Badger (1965) Use Enough Gun: On Hunting Big Game (1966) Women (1967) Robert Ruark's Africa by Michael McIntosh (1991), a collection of Ruark's magazine articles The Lost Classics (1996), additional hunting adventures Filmography Africa