Publisher's Synopsis
Benard Wafula is a young journalist working with The Telegraph. His editor calls him to his office to brief him on an assignment to cover an apparent case of cannibalism in the coast region of the country. At the same time Martha, a nun, is assigned to go and make arrangements to receive take a group of children from a Children's home to the same region through a Kenya Airways plane on its maiden flight. The two are strangers. They travel on the same bus, share a seat and a brief talk. Later they go their separate ways. Martha is struck by Ben and keeps thinking of him, while Ben too is almost sure he is in love with her. Meanwhile, unknown to both Ben and his editor, the former is a subject of a Biblical prophecy of the revelations. Two spy agencies have just put in operation a project called Gold. Its purpose is to monitor and help Ben. Ben's assignment has to be cut short when terrorists bomb Nairobi and Dar-es Salaam. Mossad and CIA agents establish contact with him, and with some effort, begin to explain his identity and new role in the unfolding of the Christian apocalypse. Martha too has to come away from the city. Some of the destitute children in their charge died in the tragedy. She experiences the urge to quit the convent, and to meet, and marry, Ben. Man and woman; and man and God, are now on a cataclysmic course to look for and find each other, and come to new terms of an ancient covenant.