Drinking From the Stream

by Richard Scott Sacks

By turns action/adventure, political thriller, historical and literary fiction, Drinking from the Stream is set during 1971 and 1972, a time of violent upheaval when the Vietnam War and the Chinese Cultural Revolution marked a generation. The action leapfrogs ten countries, from the United States to Tanzania, in a coming-of-age tale of youth colliding with post-independence Africa. Jake Ries, a twenty-two-year-old Nebraska farm boy turned oil roughneck, becomes a fugitive when he unintentionally kills a homicidal White supremacist on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. On the run, he meets Karl Appel, a restless, disillusioned Oxford dropout and former anti-war activist. Throwing caution to the wind and both struggling with personal demons, the two young men plunge into the Ethiopian and East African hinterland, where they discover that dictatorship and mass murder are facts of life.

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