Legitimate Business

Ritu Roy, a constable with an all-female United Nations peacekeeping unit in Darfur, Sudan, has been shot dead. Her superiors call it a random shooting, but her partner, Constable Priya Choudhury, thinks otherwise. She’s found a bullet casing from a sniper’s rifle, an uncommon weapon in the refugee camp.

The case remains closed until Valentin Vermeulen arrives to conduct a routine audit. As an investigator with the UN, his job is to ferret out fraud. And that casing is the first clue that Ritu may have stumbled onto a major criminal operation. Solving the mystery of Ritu’s death leads Vermeulen down a perilous path. With the help of journalist Tessa Bishonga, he visits the hidden camp of a notorious rebel leader and dodges a parade of shady characters on the streets of Port Sudan. In the end, Vermeulen must expose the players in the not-so-legitimate business of supplying weapons to Sudan…before he becomes their next target.