Gabriel's Moon, Boyd - B-

              Gabriel Dax is a travel writer uninterested in politics who happens to be in the Congo when Patrice Lumumba asks for an Englishman to interview him and record the conversation. He jumps at the task but never has the chance to even write the article as Lumumba is out of office before Gabriel returns to London. Lumumba had told him the US and the UN wanted him dead "because of the uranium." Soon, he is dead and Gabriel's life begins to go sideways. He's followed, his apartment is broken into, and is of interest to MI-6 and the CIA all because of the tapes he's buried in the yard. He soldiers on trying to write his next book, but is repeatedly asked to do small favors for MI-6, and all along the way, his life is now at risk. Pretty weak tea from an accomplished novelist.