The Devil of Darfur — Dave Edlund

To what lengths will a father go to save his son? How far will a soldier go to save humanity? During a humanitarian mission to Darfur, Ethan and several of his college friends are kidnapped by the Janjaweed rebels. With the clock ticking and unable to get any help from the State Department, Ethan's father Peter Savage turns to his childhood friend and commander of SGIT, Jim Nicolaou. When Jim refuses to send in a team to rescue Ethan, Peter has only one option … a plan that seems foolhardy and doomed to failure. The Janjaweed rebels are not taking hostages for ransom, but rather to be sold as subjects in bizarre and inhumane genetic experiments aimed at creating a race of super soldiers -- a hybrid creature created by infusing Neanderthal DNA into human DNA. The rebels work for a shadowy character named Colonel Ming. But in Darfur natives call him by another name … the Devil.