Synopses & Reviews
In a volatile African country American journalist Ben Chase joins the unusual expedition of David Mather, a relief worker who believes that a mysterious group of nomads--the Maji--are the descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel. Together with a handful of others, Mather and Chase travel through a war-torn region to find the Maji. But when the search for the veiled tribe draws the group into the hostile Northern District, Chase must balance Mather's apocalyptic vision with his own changing perception of this dangerous landscape.
Review
"Taut...haunting...vivid...Lee can convey the sprinting pace of a brush fire, the horror of an elephant slaughter, the hair-trigger tenseness of a military checkpoint."
--Louis Bayard, Washington Post Book World
"Diverting and unusual...Conrad by way of Joyce Cary, with a dash of Graham Greene." --Kirkus Reviews
"Creative, dark...absorbing...[The Lost Tribe] resonates with real emotions." --Middlesex News
"In The Lost Tribe, Mark Lee takes the modern unbeliever in all of us on a journey through Africa...looking for faith and for the mysterious, renegade decendants of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. The climate is harsh, the truths harsher, but Lee's compelling, lyrical prose urge us on to the inexorable conclusion." -- Richard Dooling, author of White Man's Grave
About the Author
Mark Lee is an American poet and playwright, and has worked in Africa as a foreign correspondent where he covered the genocidal war in Uganda. He lives in Los Angeles.