TY - BOOK ID - 22066409 TI - The Ibis tapestry PY - 1999 SN - 0679780955 0679455078 9780679780953 9780679455073 PB - New York (N.Y.) : Vintage books, DB - UniCat KW - Illegal arms transfers KW - Revolutionaries KW - Fiction. KW - Africa KW - Africa. UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:22066409 AB - Poley discovers that Mercer was an illegal arms trader, fatally stabbed in a remote town in the Sahara. His life was haunted by nightmares of his past, and by his clandestine involvement with a ruthless rebel. Poley begins to recognize a pattern of corruption as severe as South Africa's in the aftermath of apartheid. A chilling story of murder that masterfully evokes South Africa's recent past. When a dead man's laptop computer is mysteriously delivered to Robert Poley, he abandons work on his latest "airport" thriller to investigate the murder of the computer's previous owner, Christo Mercer. ER -