Wisdom should come to the ones who survive In the 1980s – and barely out of his teens – Valder Larka left his native Sweden to fight with the armed resistance during Uganda's bush war. Against the fragile backdrop of war's brutal theatre he found brotherhood, a sense of purpose and belonging and – in the most unlikely of places – true love. But war's path is unpredictable and its character ugly. An unforeseen chain of events set in motion a catastrophe that tore Valder's world – and heart – apart. And in his final test he was forced to confront the wild animal that prowls beneath the veneer of our seemingly civilised selves...