title: Death in Kenya: A Novel
author:  M. M. Kaye 
description: <b>M.M. Kaye </b>was born in India and spent much of her childhood and adult life there. She became world famous with the publication of her monumental bestseller, <i>The Far Pavilions. </i>She is also the author of the bestselling <i>Trade Wind </i>and <i>Shadow of the Moon. </i>
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  **AFTERWORD**
  
  
  This is a novel. That means that the events and characters depicted in this
  book have no direct models in real life. It also means that any similarities
  with historical events or persons should be considered pure coincidence.
  
  
  The novel does not necessarily depict what actually happened. The task of the
  novel is to portray what might have happened.
  
  
    
  
  Henning Mankell  
  Mozambique, April 2000
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **CHAPTER 1**
  
  
  He had walked a long way in the intense heat. Several times in the last
  twenty-four hours he had been struck by vertigo and thought that he was about
  to die. It had filled him with fear, or perhaps it was actually rage, and he
  had struggled on in a fury. The desert was endless. He didn’t want to die
  here, not yet, and he had urged on Amos, fat Neka and the other black men he
  had hired in Cape Town who were driving his three oxen and the wagon in which
  his entire life was packed and tied with ropes. Somewhere ahead of them, deep
  inside the blinding h