1904, Southern Africa. The great European powers are ruthlessly pursuing their goal to build an empire - but the local tribes are restless.

Werner von Dewitz, a young German officer in the army of Kaiser Wilhelm II, arrives in the continent assigned the task of infiltrating a gunrunning operation that is causing political turmoil between German and Portuguese regions. Dewitz masquerades as a Portuguese manufacturing representative to secretly penetrate the Angolan gunrunners' network while working with military officers and intelligence agents of the two countries in his relentless pursuit of the outlaws.

Posing as Joachim de Almeida, he sets up a deal with the repulsive and dangerous Antonio dos Santos whose beautiful mulatto wife Maria quickly sees in von Dewitz a means of escape from her husband. But von Dewitz has already stoked up a fledgling romance with mission-bound Dr Dorothea Eggers whom he met on his way out.

Can von Dewitz outwit the stop-at-nothing dos Santos who seems to know his every move? And what lies in store for Maria and Dorothea?

Utterly realistic and thoroughly absorbing, The Gunrunners elegantly blends the distasteful realities of Europe's colonial past with a modern reflection on human relationships.


Praise for Peter Vollmer:


'Reads like a classic.' - Dr Wesley Britton, author of The Encyclopaedia of TV Spies

'Thrillers in lesser hands read like research reports. Vollmer knows the areas and locations of which he writes and this allows him to utilize those snippets and scratches to great effect.' - David Baclaski, Screenwriter, New York

'Vollmer has little time for poetic pleasantries, as his writing is tough and terse in a way that is reminiscent of Mickey Spillane, Ted Lewis, and other "hardboiled" thriller writers.'- Benjamin Welton, Writer & Lecturer, Boston University

Peter Vollmer is the grandson of German colonists who settled in the German colony of South West Africa in the late 19th century. His other novels include Diamonds Are but Stone, Per Fine Ounce and Left for Dead.

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