African Skies — Mike Tucker

African Skies

"Amor Vincit Omnia."

Latin proverb.

English Translation: Love conquers all.

A hunt for man-eating lions in East Africa in the summer of 2010 leads a young American veteran on a journey that changes his life forever in AFRICAN SKIES, a meditation on survival, war, loss, and love in this first novel by the author of RONIN, THE LONG PATROL and AMONG WARRIORS IN IRAQ, Mike Tucker.

"Gripping and passionate, AFRICAN SKIES is a terrific love story with a richly-textured, witty and dynamic narrative. Tucker's prose rocks in this novel, a book that leads with a riveting lion hunt and takes the reader on a journey of the heart. The intrigue is fresh and stunning and I really felt like I knew the characters in the book as well as I know my own friends, by novel's end. Magnificent."

Will Layman, jazz critic, editor and educator. Washington, D.C.

"If Hemingway were alive, he would be buying drinks for Mike Tucker all night long, for Tucker's vivid, moving first-hand account of a 250 kilometer deep reconnaissance behind Burmese Army lines, THE LONG PATROL, pivots on those quintessentially Hemingwayesque themes of armed men fighting to survive against overwhelming odds, and simply battling against the elements. Outstanding."

Jim Algie, Editor and journalist,
UNTAMED TRAVEL. Bangkok.

Author of twenty-one books, including fourteen volumes of poetry, Mike Tucker graduated with Honors in Poetry in 1982 and a Master of Arts in Literature in 1999 from James Madison University. His next novel, LONELY FIRE, will be published by Outskirts Press in November 2011.

www.miketuckerauthor.com