Down the Banks

<strong>Down the Banks - T.D. Dean</strong> In August 1914, big game hunter and veteran of the second Anglo-Boer War, John Robert Lee, stood on a bluff overlooking vast Lake Tanganyika watching a newly armed German ship mercilessly attack an unarmed Belgian transport steamer. He had just witnessed the start of the Great War in Africa. Instantly understanding how crucial this waterway was to saving the future of Africa from German rule, Lee, a member of the Legion of Frontiersmen devised a mad scheme to free it. Lee's battle for Lake Tanganyika - for his Africa - began. His actions and success at convincing Whitehall to back his crazy scheme to clear the lake of Germans, kicked off one of those quirky tales that have gone down in the annals of war history myth. With clear prose and powerful purpose, this novel takes the reader on Lee's journey, one that reveals the broader picture of the Great War in Africa. John Robert Lee's life has never been brought to light and while this is a work of fiction, it finally shows Lee, as the hero he truely was. Born in Liverpool, England, John Robert Lee was the type of man that Ernest Hemingway could only imagine himself to be. Lee might have had a wild side, and perhaps he did not rank high enough in the strict English hierarchy to be saved from the lies, but he never let it stop him from fighting for his good name and he never gave up on his country.