Limit by Frank Schatzing

Author:Frank Schatzing [Schätzing, Frank]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9781623650452
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2013-09-06T04:00:00+00:00

May 29, 2025

The Mercenary

Night Flight

There was one good thing you could say about Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo: after he’d come to power in August 1979, the human rights situation in Equatorial Guinea had visibly improved. From that point on, there were no more mass crucifixions along the highway to the airport, and the skulls of the opposition were no longer impaled on stakes for all to see.

“A true philanthropist,” scoffed Yoyo.

“But not the first,” said Jericho. “Have you heard of Fernão do Pó?”

Heading toward Berlin at twice the speed of sound, they traveled backward in time, from the Shanghai dawn to the Berlin night, from the year 2025 to the beginnings of a continent in which it seemed everything that could go wrong, always did. Africa, the unloved cradle of humanity, characterized by dead-straight borders which severed its ancient tendons and nerves, creating countries of bizarre geometry, the smallest of which lay patchwork-like on the western fringes, its history reading like a chronicle of continual rape.

“Fernão do Pó? Who on earth is he?”

“Another philanthropist. After a fashion.”

As Tu had insisted on flying his company jet himself, Jericho and Yoyo had the luxurious, twelve-seater passenger cabin to themselves. They were using two monitors, supported by Diane, to familiarize themselves with Equatorial Guinea in the hope of finding answers to the questions of the last two days. The picture only became more and more confusing with each piece of information the computer provided, and the only thing that had become clear was that the events in Equatorial Guinea could only be understood if one looked at their development from the very beginning. And that beginning started with:

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