This action filled novel is really a kaleidoscope of 10 days in Amin's Uganda. We are caught in the midst of a rebellion in the army and an operation to retrieve 1965 Congo gold - when the brutal activities of his henchman Major Okis and Captain Swaleh are unleashed... Fourteen years later after they had dispersed,the former Butenda Catholic Mission students find themselves pitted against the regime. Joseph Ntanda as a consequence of having married an Indian girl is caught up in a vicious circle kills one of The Big Man's cousins...Whilst his friend, Charles Kaye, becomes an unwitting victim of the regime. Sofia Nakibule their much vaunted primary school beauty and formerly Kaye's lover - still deeply in love with him, but enmeshed in her involvement with The Big Man's killers - As the mistress of the sinister Major Okis...The storyline is compounded by other characters from all walks of life in the Ugandan situation...Whilst in the background The Big Man is casually conducting his power hold on the country.