Michael Oren

The Dallas Mercenary Michael Oren

At the initial signs of some skirmishes over the disputed elections in Kenya, a young English woman sets off to save her 12-year old friend from a possible threat of civil war. The trip turns into a long journey through the underbelly of the Third World that will leave her questioning whether these people ever really had peace in the first place.
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Political process has collapsed. A once promising democratic state has gone awry. In a country with forty-two ethnic groups, along with several varying religious and political affiliations, loyalties are drifting asunder. A recipe is etched for an all out civil war as every small divisive line grows bolder, and the nation begins to sink into an unprecedented bloodbath. But in the midst of all these chaotic divisions, there is one particular group that is the most brutal of them all. They are responsible for the worst of the gruesome massacres. They don?t belong to one ethnicity or follow a specific religion or identify with any political views. Their average age is fourteen, and they are united only by a special bond of poverty. They are drifting around the country slaying indiscriminately for one reason only: because it is the only way they will earn their daily bread.
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The Dallas Mercenary is a multi-layered political thriller with a hard-hitting emotional story of love, friendship and extraordinary courage in adversity; a tale that should evoke in those of us fortunate enough to have landed on the fertile side of the world, to spare a thought, every once in a while, for the desolate denizens of Dallas, Mathary-Valley - one of the biggest slums in the world.