The Burning Sky

1935: Cal Jardine is a soldier of fortune. Forced to leave Hamburg he is recruited by a secretive British committee to smuggle guns to Abyssinia. But first Jardine must procure the weapons from Romania. Taken to the Horn of Africa the arms are then transported over a harsh landscape into the hands of the Ethiopian Army. On his travels Jardine acquires more baggage than he anticipated including a beautiful but difficult American female in search of her archaeologist mother a determined reporter and a daredevil French flyer while missing out on a painful death by sheer good fortune. But the Ethiopians are ill-equipped to a face a modern Italian army using tanks bombers and poison gas. Trained for war can Jardine simply walk away? (web)