Word: kimani
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...white hero is Peter McKenzie, a hulking young safari leader who can stalk a kudu, sight a Mannlicher-Schoenauer and get shikkered on gin with the best big-game hunters. The sinister shadow on his life is his childhood playmate, the black Kimani. who becomes a Mau Mau at bestial oath-taking ceremonies in a mountain hideout and butchers Peter's family in sanguinary scenes of the kind that Author Ruark insists upon describing over and over again in detail...
...ground, tries unsuccessfully to get her to talk by dropping a two-foot snake upon her genitals. Finally Peter says: "I have shot only wart hogs and camp meat, so to speak . . . Now I want to go and find me a fine trophy ... I will collect old Kimani and hang him on the wall...
...corners Kimani at his mountain cave and strangles him. Then he carries Kimani's infant son down to the family farm, hoping that the child may grow up with his own sister's baby - just as he and Kimani had before. In some vague way, suggests Author Ruark, the next generation may find peace; if not, the surviving baby can always serve as an excuse for an equally bloody sequel...