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Winner of Multiple Awards in Literary Fiction. Included in the Prize-Winning Literary Fiction Series from LaPuerta Books and MediaIntrigue on the white sands of the Indian Ocean. A lonely widower seeks escape in Kenya - what he finds is temptation, truth, and a second chance at Gardner thinks he's just buying a luxury safari vacation. Instead, he steps into a world of shifting loyalties, whispered deals, and romantic entanglements that challenge everything he believed about love, morality, and to the sunlit coast of Kenya, Harry hopes for distraction and maybe a little reinvention. Then he meets Esther - a beautiful, beguiling widow with secrets of her own - and frets about Aldo, a silver-tongued travel arranger who knows more than he says. As Harry settles into his new surroundings, he finds himself navigating cultural misunderstandings, emotional manipulations, and a creeping suspicion that paradise might have its own between the comforts of his old life and the lures of an unfamiliar future, Harry must decide if this journey is a grand escape or a slow seduction. With a backdrop of striking African landscapes and razor-sharp insight into human motives, Harry Harambee's Kenyan Sundowner is a late-in-life odyssey of love, vulnerability, and the thrill - and risk - of starting must come to terms with questions at the heart of his character: Is corruption a fact of life everywhere? Is all love transactional? Harry Harambee's Kenyan Sundowner is an emotional story of expat intrigue in Africa, reminiscent of The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene and The Constant Gardener by John le Carré."Jones writes with clarity and precision, offering a convincing study of a man taking risks and exploring new relationships with an almost childlike view on the world he's thrown into. Readers looking for engaging contemporary fiction with an emotionally available adult male lead will quickly be pulled into Harry's fast-paced adventure, a memorable (literal) vacation read." - BookLife Reviews

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Harry Harambee's Kenyan Sundowner is a captivating, witty read that explores the sociopolitical climate in Kenya in an honest way that is both entertaining and thought-provoking. This is a clear and compelling outlook that realistically paints Kenya while exploring glaring issues that are a bane to the country. When Harry decides to stop being a bystander who lets other people decide his fate, it's noteworthy. This can be equated to Kenyans finally deciding to take responsibility rather than just going with the flow, waiting for decisions that affect their lives to be made for them. And it can be done without selling one's soul in the process and leave a legacy and a better country worthy of its name. Desmond Boi, Editorial Writer, The Standard and Citizen TV, NairobiJones writes with clarity and precision, offering a convincing study of a man taking risks and exploring new relationships with an almost childlike view on the world he's thrown into. In relatable fashion, Harry soon gets in over his head for the attention of a woman or the thrill of the deal. Esther sums up his character best: "Mister go-along. The fellow who's happy to ride in the back and look out the window." Readers looking for engaging contemporary fiction with an emotionally available adult male lead-"Grand passion is fleeting, also blinding," Harry notes - will quickly be pulled into Harry's fast-paced adventure, a memorable (literal) vacation read. BookLife ReviewsI lived in East Africa for five months. In Kenya this included Nairobi and a village on the banks of Lake Victoria. Reading this novel brought back vivid, exhilarating memories. It so accurately captures the people and the social milieu of this fascinating part of the world, no praise would be sufficient. The story is so starkly real, at times I thought I was Harry! Yes, it's an adventure. It's an education. It's a literary delight! John Rachel, author of Live from Japan! and nine novels

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