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Shadows in the Wind: Corpus Quadripartitum: Volume 2
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781991426109
Publisher: Produo Publishing Limited
Published: Sep 6 2025
Pages: 462
Weight: 1.17
Height: 1.03 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The innocence of youth has fallen away. In Shadows in the Wind - Corpus Quadripartitum: Volume II, hope and idealism are forced to contend with betrayal, corruption, and the brutal cost of power.
This collected volume contains Book III: Malitia Adolescit (Evil Grows Up) and Book IV: Quisque moriatur ut vitam perseveret (All Die so that Life May Continue)-the searing climax of Rob Steyn's sweeping saga.
In Malitia Adolescit, Jamie Soper and Julie Capriot, once young dreamers at Oxford, now find themselves caught in a tightening web of global stakes. Their pursuit of justice, empathy, and conservation collides with forces far more ruthless than they imagined: corporate interests entwined with fragile sanctuaries, boardrooms locked in battles over Africa's resources, and William Braithwaite's expanding empire of influence. Hardened by the scars of childhood, Braithwaite's hunger for control metastasises into something vast and unrelenting. Loyalties fracture, love falters under pressure, and hope strains against the inexorable rise of violence and greed.
In Quisque moriatur ut vitam perseveret, the shadows reach their darkest hour. Jamie stands at the heart of a storm where state power, corporate greed, and paramilitary violence converge upon the Congo sanctuary-a fragile beacon of conservation and compassion. William Braithwaite's shadow stretches to its fullest extent, but even his empire is threatened by forces older and more ruthless than himself. Innocence gives way to sacrifice; ideals are tested in the crucible of betrayal and bloodshed. Some lives must be lost so that others may endure.
Unflinching, deeply human, and haunting in its resonance, Corpus Quadripartitum: Volume II confronts the reader with the true costs of ambition and survival-while holding fast to the fragile, enduring possibility of empathy.
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