Elie Lison

This true, astonishing story describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control, Congo became a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave-traders but, in reality, he carved out an empire based on terror to harvest rubber.

When a Yankee pilot crash-lands in Belgium, he finds refuge with the Resistance and meets a woman who could alter his life and the course of the war.