The Red-Eye Fever

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Summary: Amazing Adventures in the Belgian Congo
Review: Ms. Dallemagne-Cookson's latgest book chronicles her amazing experiences in the Belgian Congo just prior to its independence in 1960. As a young American woman sent to the Congo on a Foreign Service assignment, she encounters many extraordinary people, including a refugee from World War II committed to crocodile hunting. She joins him and becomes part of the team that ultimately captures and kills El Diablo, a huge crocodile who has been menacing the area for many years. Her descriptions of this hunt and other subsequent hunts are truly fascinating. The reader is literally spellbound! The accompanying photographs provide further realism. The author also touches upon her personal story, relating how she meets her future husband and moves on to the next phase of her remarkable life. We owe Ms. Dallemagne-Cookson a debt of gratitude for sharing her unforgettable story with us. A must read for people of all ages!

Rating:
Summary: Amazing Adventures in the Belgian Congo
Review: Ms. Dallemagne-Cookson's latgest book chronicles her amazing experiences in the Belgian Congo just prior to its independence in 1960. As a young American woman sent to the Congo on a Foreign Service assignment, she encounters many extraordinary people, including a refugee from World War II committed to crocodile hunting. She joins him and becomes part of the team that ultimately captures and kills El Diablo, a huge crocodile who has been menacing the area for many years. Her descriptions of this hunt and other subsequent hunts are truly fascinating. The reader is literally spellbound! The accompanying photographs provide further realism. The author also touches upon her personal story, relating how she meets her future husband and moves on to the next phase of her remarkable life. We owe Ms. Dallemagne-Cookson a debt of gratitude for sharing her unforgettable story with us. A must read for people of all ages!

Rating:
Summary: Amazing Adventures in the Belgian Congo
Review: Ms. Dallemagne-Cookson's newest book chronicles her amazing experiences in the Belgian Congo just prior to its independence in 1960. As a young American woman sent to the Congo on a Foreign Service assignment she encounters many extraordinary people, including a refugee from World War II committed to crocodile hunting. She joins him and becomes part of the team that ultimately captures and kills El Diablo, a huge crocodile who has been menacing the area for many years. Her descriptions of this hunt and other subsequent hunts are truly fascinating. The reader is literally spellbound! The accompanying photographs provide further realism. The author also touches upon her personal story, relating how she meets her future husband and moves on to the next phase of her remarkable life. We owe Ms. Dallemagne-Cookson a debt of gratitude for sharing her unforgettable story with us. A must read for people of all ages!

Rating:
Summary: Amazing Adventures in the Belgian Congo
Review: Ms. Dallemagne-Cookson's newest book chronicles her amazing experiences in the Belgian Congo just prior to its independence in 1960. As a young American woman sent to the Congo on a Foreign Service assignment she encounters many extraordinary people, including a refugee from World War II committed to crocodile hunting. She joins him and becomes part of the team that ultimately captures and kills El Diablo, a huge crocodile who has been menacing the area for many years. Her descriptions of this hunt and other subsequent hunts are truly fascinating. The reader is literally spellbound! The accompanying photographs provide further realism. The author also touches upon her personal story, relating how she meets her future husband and moves on to the next phase of her remarkable life. We owe Ms. Dallemagne-Cookson a debt of gratitude for sharing her unforgettable story with us. A must read for people of all ages!

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Summary: An African Adventure
Review: The Red Eye Fever

Elise Dallemagne

This is a well-crafted, true-life adventure story. Read it and be transported to the Belgian Congo in the 1950's, where a nice young American girl gets herself invited to go crocodile hunting. Although she has never killed an animal in her life, she finds herself having to pull the trigger on a huge crocodile that has terrorized the region for years. The story is fresh and convincing because it was written from notes taken at the time. The accompanying photographs, which the author almost lost, are priceless records of the country and the people.

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Summary: More Engaging than Most Contemporary Fiction
Review: There is something in the cadence of the storytelling of The Red-Eye Fever so directly descended from the pulp novel that it took me by surprise to discover that this wonderfully crafted book was, in fact, a memoir. What leaps off the page aren't the reminiscences of a retired school marm from upstate New York, but more the flexing prose of an erstwhile Hemingway or an underdistributed Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Simply stated, The Red-Eye Fever is a well-spun and well-muscled adventure. Its two-fisted prose provides a refreshing respite from the solipsistic meanderings that so often characterize this genre; its cinematic sense of structure plays neatly against its historical backdrop. If you're tired of the current crop of wan contemporary fiction, The Red-Eye Fever may be exactly what you are craving.