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Ramseyers Ghost
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2050.The global village has disintegrated.The Third World War, ending in a stalemate, has left the planet split between two hostile powers, each with a captive sphere of influence. The Atlantic Ocean has become an American sea.West Africa has become a desert of failed states and anarchy, dotted with mines and oil rigs, stockaded and armed by U. S. corporations.  From their island outpost of St. Thomas (São Tome), the Americans dispatch expeditions of geologists and mining engineers into the dangerous interior of the Dark Continent to search for untapped resources.  One such expedition has gone missing.  Ekem “Crash” Ferguson, born in the U.S. in 2008 of African parents and abandoned to the care of foster parents, is a Captain in the Marine Corps. His career blocked and his marriage failing, he accepts an offer to proceed to Ghana on a one-man mission to find the missing experts.  His arrival in Africa is inauspicious: in a shack amongst the coconut palms he comes across two human skeletons.  A boy guides him to a coastal village. He tells the chief that he has come to Ghana to search for his natural parents. The chief delegates fisherman Kofi Kom to accompany him to Kumasi, the Ashanti capital, 120 miles up-country.  Kofi leaves Crash at a run-down lakeside holiday resort while he proceeds to Kumasi to obtain permission to enter the city. A troupe of actors is rehearsing a version of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in the local language, Twi. He meets an ambitious young feminist actress, Yaa. In Kumasi, Kofi finds Crash a room and suggests that he employ Boafo, who occupies the adjacent room, as his guide. In a bar, Crash hears rumors of Americans imprisoned in the Kumasi Fort. Despite his failure to gain access to the Fort, he is convinced that the missing Americans are imprisoned there.  When Boafo takes him to a soccer match at the city’s stadium, he identifies this as an ide
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