Synopsis: Once again, Ben Kella has his hands full. A sergeant in the Solomon Islands Police Force, as well as an aofia, a hereditary spiritual peacekeeper of the Lau people, he's called to investigate acts of sabotage that threaten the local operations of a poweful internation operation, which are perhaps connected to increasing groundswell end to colonial rule. Meanwhile, Sister Conchita, a young nun with a flair for detection, has been forced to leave her beloved Malaita and assume reluctant command of a run-down mission in the lush Western District of the Solomon Islands. Conchita tries to grapple with these eccentric, tough-minded nuns she finds there, and their closely guarded and deadly secret, but is distracted when an American tourist is murdered in the mission church. She and Kella join forces to uncover the links between these goings on and a sudden upsurge of interest in John F. Kennedy, once a wartime U.S. naval officer in the area but now, in 1960, thousands of miles away, about to become the 35th President of the U.S.A. Set in the 60's in one of the most beautiful and dangerous areas of the South Pacific, One Blood is the second entry in an exciting new series.
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