Val Hillsdon-Hutton

Derailed Sentence Val Hillsdon-Hutton

Because of a murder investigation in which she is falsely implicated, Kate Wagner leaves Idi Amin's Uganda and returns to her native England. Because of her language skills and experience, she is recruited as a British Government Agent and sent back to Uganda to gather information on troop and equipment locations. Pursued by a disgruntled Ugandan ex-policeman, she makes a dangerous trip by car to Northern Uganda, helped by those she knew in the past, often having to negotiate at army checkpoints, bribing civilians and military personel alike and using the information provided by local and British assets.