When Leopold ellman - The son of a banker - inherits a substantial wealth, he sets off for The Sudan in search of adventure. Never in his wildest fantasies could he have imagined the perilous trip that awaited him... Helped by his muslim servant, he embarks on a relentless pursuit of so-called 'slave hunters'. Will he ever return safely home to his worried mother and loving fiancé? Henry Wermuth started writing at the ripe age of eighty. Since then he has written a number of fiction and non-fiction books, of which this is his seventh.