White Crocodile by K. T Medina When emotionally damaged mineclearer Tess Hardy travels to Cambodia to find out the truth behind her exhusband's death, she doesn't know much about the country or its beliefs. When she reaches Cambodia, Tess is met with a country full of ever present danger; the day after her arrival another clearer is badly injured in the same minefield - a field superstitious locals call the 'White Crocodile' minefield. Teenage mothers are also disappearing from villages around the minefields, while others are being found mutilated and murdered, their babies abandoned. The mythical figure of the white crocodile, signifying death, seems to be the thing linking all these events together but what Tess uncovers is far more real and far more terrifying. 'Few crime novels deserve to be called operatic - in the sense of being larger than life, with emotions etched in the most striking of colours - but K T Medina's remarkable debut certainly qualifies for the adjective. Painted on the most ambitious of canvases, White Crocodile takes the reader into a Cambodia that suggests the fraught psychological territory of Joseph Conrad's Africa in Heart of Darkness.' The Independent 'The killing fields of Cambodia provide an unsettling and evocative setting for KT Medina's impressive debut, White Crocodile. It's a powerful, angry book, affected by Medina's personal experiences there.' Marcel Berlins, The Times K T Medina joined the Territorial Army whilst doing her first degree in Psychology. She spent five years there, firstly as an officer trainee, then as a Troop Commander in the Royal Engineers. As Head of Land Based Weapon Systems, at Jane's Information Group, the worlds leading publisher of defence intelligence information, she visited Cambodia, working with mine clearance charities in Battambang to provide them with information that would help mine clearers deal with complex mines and IEDs more safely in the field. She was also privileged to meet Khmers, both adults and children, who had been injured by land mines and to visit many of the locations that appear in White Crocodile.
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