Money, Blood & Conscience: A Novel of Ethiopia’s Democracy Revolution

Product Description

Finally revealed…the shocking story behind the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region!

Inspired by true events and written by an adviser to Ethiopia’s democracy revolution, MONEY, BLOOD AND CONSCIENCE tells the story of a Hollywood TV producer’s love affair with an Ethiopian guerrilla fighter during the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front dicatorship. Part investigative journalism and part parable, this highly acclaimed historical thriller depicts the cover-up of a holocaust and raises questions about the ends and means of Western policy in shadowy places. Money, Blood and Conscience superbly portrays the fight by the world’s poorest for food and justice, drawing the reader into a magnificent, heartbreaking crusade for human dignity.

Review

“I COULD NOT PUT THE BOOK DOWN”

 – Barbara Basbanes, Voting Member, National Book Critics Circle   

“DEFTLY CRAFTED AND INHERENTLY RIVETING. EXTRAORDINARILY UNIQUE AND UNRESERVEDLY RECOMMENDED”

– James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief, The Midwest Book Review  

DAVID STEINMAN RAISES DEEPLY TROUBLING QUESTIONS…HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

–  Indies Today 

“THIS WILL BE ON THE SYLLABUS”

– Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California Irvine 

“ABSOLUTELY COMPELLING”

 – Ludger Schadomsky, Deutsche Welle

From the Author

Readers will enjoy this historical novel about an Ethiopian-American love affair during the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front dictatorship and learn the backstory to the recent fighting in Tigray.

From the Inside Flap

An idealistic American TV producer starts a charity for famine victims amid Ethiopia’s civil war…
“You’re not in California here,” Ethiopia’s rebel leader-turned-prime minister reminds him. “This is a different world.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

In 1993, a prince and princess from Ethiopia’s 2,500-year-old Solomonic Dynasty reached out to an international revolutionary who’d played a behind-the-scenes role in the overthrow of Haiti’s notorious “Baby Doc” Duvalier. Could he help free Ethiopia’s most famous political prisoner and liberate its people from a reign of terror?                                                                                     

Now, that revolutionary, David Steinman, has drawn on his extraordinary, real-life adventure to write a novel about Ethiopia’s present-day struggle for freedom. Part investigative journalism and part parable, it depicts the cover-up of a holocaust… 

About the Author

David Steinman was a consulting expert to the U.S. National Security Council regarding the overthrow of Haiti’s notorious “Baby Doc” Duvalier and helped shape U.S. democracy promotion policy during the Reagan administration. He later coordinated private support for Southeast Asian anti-Communist resistance movements. 

Mr. Steinman served as senior foreign adviser to Ethiopia’s democracy movement for 27 years until its 2018 victory. He co-planned Ethiopia’s 2005 civil resistance and election campaign, voted that year’s “Most Important African Event” in a BBC poll, which inspired Money, Blood and Conscience.

This is the first novel from Mr. Steinman, whose non-fiction writing in the Washington Post, Forbes.com and New York Times revealed the Ethiopian dictatorship’s human rights abuses, theft of thirty billion dollars from famine victims and hidden genocide. He has been quoted in the Daily Mail, The National Review, De Telegraaf, and hundreds of online media outlets.

Last December, Mr. Steinman