Publisher's Synopsis
The United Nations' Volunteers chronicles the experiences of two Hollywood celebrities, Christopher Cain and Martin Riches, in post-war Sierra Leone, a West African nation that emerged from a decade of war in 2002. Lasting features of the war, in which thousands fled, and tens of thousands died, were the atrocities committed by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels, whose trademark was to chop off the hands or feet of their victims. With the help of Great Britain, the former colonial power, and a United Nations' peacekeeping group, most of the rebels, including child soldiers, were disarmed. Sierra Leone has been recovering since the decade of the war, although the economy remains underdeveloped. A democratic election was held with UN supervision and incorporated former rebels into the government. Security is a key issue, and thousands of RUF fighters, including the child soldiers, still maintain hidden caches of weapons, leaving the country at the bottom of the UN's list of politically unstable countries. Will the mission of the two Hollywood celebrities be successful given the merged strength of the two victimized groups, the Revolutionary United Front and Executive Outcome, now in control of the rural parts of the country? Will the two eminent actors return to Hollywood, and their celebrity lives after they are presumed to be CIA agents and captured by the Executive Outcome and Revolutionary United Front? Would the USA become a victim of another Al Qaeda plot?
