PARLEY WITH THE DEVIL, an African odyssey, the trials and triumphs of an Irish settler in colonial southern Africa

279pp., illus., maps, paperback, spine a little faded, Cape Town, 2011 

Personal inscription on title page by Kevin Butler. 

"A captivating tale of military action, young love and political intrigue involving a hard-fought campaign against the slave trade, the bitter issue of convicts landing in Cape Town and the eventual abduction of a city councilor into bondage on the coast of darkest West Africa. Entertaining and historically educational." Taken from the book.