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Legacy
The wide-ranging plot straddles four continents as the main characters’ lives intertwine; driven by love, betrayal, ambition and the desire for a Legacy.
Bucephalus is a secret project that will produce the world’s first emissions free car using a special fuel and engine, but there is another hidden agenda. China seizes on the opportunity to use Bucephalus to bring America to its knees, for its own ends.
Gene Finnegan the automotive giant behind the project persuades the US president to lead a humanitarian programme called Feed Africa, using it to hide the environmental testing his vehicles require.
Joseph Montgomery, America’s president is desperate to avert a war, become the hero he images himself to be and finally break free from his domineering mother.
Josie Ryland knows the truth. Bucephalus is destroying the eco system and the people she loves in southern Africa. Can she stop it from being launched? The stage is set for a showdown with unimaginable consequences.
Bucephalus is a secret project that will produce the world’s first emissions free car using a special fuel and engine, but there is another hidden agenda. China seizes on the opportunity to use Bucephalus to bring America to its knees, for its own ends.
Gene Finnegan the automotive giant behind the project persuades the US president to lead a humanitarian programme called Feed Africa, using it to hide the environmental testing his vehicles require.
Joseph Montgomery, America’s president is desperate to avert a war, become the hero he images himself to be and finally break free from his domineering mother.
Josie Ryland knows the truth. Bucephalus is destroying the eco system and the people she loves in southern Africa. Can she stop it from being launched? The stage is set for a showdown with unimaginable consequences.
246 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 1, 2021
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March 6, 2021
For a debut novel, this story is incredibly intricate but very well researched - ten years in the making according to the author.
I can well see where those ten years have gone in creating this fast moving plot involving four of the world's continents in a story essentially about trying to slow climate change and the pitfalls that could be involved when unscrupulous companies and governments get involved.
What starts off as a story about altruism quickly degenerates into a battle over profits and a power struggle between nations. Sadly the only losers are the ordinary people whose very lives are threatened by what has been hailed as a saviour for the planet.
None of these green solutions come without a cost and this one is a killer chemical released by the scientific breakthrough of creating a non-polluting engine and fuel. It shows up during testing on the unsuspecting African continent disguised as a humanitarian mission, but the discovery is hushed up.
The power play between nations now comes into force: release the technology onto an unsuspecting world and ignore the threat to animal and human health or shelve the project and risk a global power struggle between supper-powers. If the truth were ever to emerge the latter would be disaster.
The author leaves that question hanging in the last few pages perhaps to be answered in a second volume?
The author has done her research well so has she picked information that others might prefer stays hidden? If so her life could be under threat like so many of the main characters in this story. Let's hope it is truly a work of fiction for the health and safety of us all.
I can well see where those ten years have gone in creating this fast moving plot involving four of the world's continents in a story essentially about trying to slow climate change and the pitfalls that could be involved when unscrupulous companies and governments get involved.
What starts off as a story about altruism quickly degenerates into a battle over profits and a power struggle between nations. Sadly the only losers are the ordinary people whose very lives are threatened by what has been hailed as a saviour for the planet.
None of these green solutions come without a cost and this one is a killer chemical released by the scientific breakthrough of creating a non-polluting engine and fuel. It shows up during testing on the unsuspecting African continent disguised as a humanitarian mission, but the discovery is hushed up.
The power play between nations now comes into force: release the technology onto an unsuspecting world and ignore the threat to animal and human health or shelve the project and risk a global power struggle between supper-powers. If the truth were ever to emerge the latter would be disaster.
The author leaves that question hanging in the last few pages perhaps to be answered in a second volume?
The author has done her research well so has she picked information that others might prefer stays hidden? If so her life could be under threat like so many of the main characters in this story. Let's hope it is truly a work of fiction for the health and safety of us all.
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April 9, 2021This debut novel by CA Sacha had me hooked from the first page. This political thriller set crosses four continents from the corridors of political and industrial power of the USA to the velds of Southern Africa touching down in rural England. Legacy kept me hooked until the last page.
I could smell the fertile grasslands of Southern Africa, see the English countryside and the luxury of modern China that is shown to the West. But behind it all politicians and industrialists are playing a dangerous game, manipulating and being manipulated as they strive for personal glory and increasing wealth.
Can disaster be averted? Josie, a determined young woman with her past in Africa and her future in America hopes so. The characters leap from the page their strengths and weaknesses driving the plot forward to a wholly unexpected and thrilling finale.
Legacy is beautifully written. It is a long time since I’ve enjoyed a book quite so much.
I could smell the fertile grasslands of Southern Africa, see the English countryside and the luxury of modern China that is shown to the West. But behind it all politicians and industrialists are playing a dangerous game, manipulating and being manipulated as they strive for personal glory and increasing wealth.
Can disaster be averted? Josie, a determined young woman with her past in Africa and her future in America hopes so. The characters leap from the page their strengths and weaknesses driving the plot forward to a wholly unexpected and thrilling finale.
Legacy is beautifully written. It is a long time since I’ve enjoyed a book quite so much.
September 4, 2021
Innovative and original ... Visceral and disturbing ... And endlessly thought-provoking, this blistering expose of global corruption is surprisingly a debut novel, but I can assure you C.A. Sacha writes with razor-sharp professionalism.
Twenty years ago John le Carre wrote of illegal drug-testing in Africa in The Constant Gardener, but C.A. Sacha takes the theme one step further in a thriller that is totally relevant as the world moves ever closer to devastating climate change.
The author writes with fierce political intelligence and has an absolute command of the internal landscape of her characters. This could and should become a blockbuster film.
Twenty years ago John le Carre wrote of illegal drug-testing in Africa in The Constant Gardener, but C.A. Sacha takes the theme one step further in a thriller that is totally relevant as the world moves ever closer to devastating climate change.
The author writes with fierce political intelligence and has an absolute command of the internal landscape of her characters. This could and should become a blockbuster film.
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