{"product_id":"the-white-rhino-hotel-a-novel","title":"The White Rhino Hotel: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eHistoric romance and adventure do not get any better than in this companion novel to the top-selling A Caf on the Nile. The Great War has ended  tragically for many  but for some  Africa holds the prospect of vast estates  fabulous wealth  and limitless opportunity in this powerful  wonderfully crafted novel of the natural and human perils that await pioneers in a promised land. In colonial Kenya the paths of these new settlers cross at Lord Penfolds White Rhino Hotel. Here they meet the cunning dwarf Olivio Alevado  a man whose lustful desires and vengeful schemes make him a formidable adversary to his enemies and a subtle ally to his friends. Here the destinies of the gypsy adventurer Anton Rider and courageous  war-hardened Gwen Llewelyn intersect. Here hope is corrupted by greed  love by revenge  and loyalty by betrayal as the future is trampled into history. \"A wing-ding adventure story.... The kind of book that creates one of the elemental delights of fiction - a complete other world where  unlike our own  all the parts add up to something.\" - Boston Globe; \"A genuine epic centered in Africa  by a writer who knows how to write  who knows his terrain intimately  who knows how to paint his characters convincingly  and who knows how to spin a good yarn.\" - Forbes Magazine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44963265577013,"sku":"ByrdShop_0786707984","price":27.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780786707980.jpg?v=1770409931","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-white-rhino-hotel-a-novel","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}