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KALASHNIKOV
Kalashnikov begins with an appeal from de European Parliament to capture Joseph Kony, the greatest war criminal ever, who on top of murdering, raping and turning thousands of children into slaves, he uses them as soldiers for his army. As the institutions are powerless, a small group of European members of Parliament decide to break the laws they have sworn to defend. After Kony’s men mount an attack on the deposits of coltan in the Congo, in which six hundred innocents lost their lives, the group decides to put an end to his life and to the lives of those to whom, in exchange for coltan, he provides with AK-47 Kalashnikov rifles used by the troops. To this end they offer an elephant hunter -known as Balanegra (Black Bullet) ten million euros for Joseph Kony’s head. Adrián Balanegra and his guide, Gazá Magalé, face the riskiest adventure of their lives: finding and killing Joseph Kony in a swampy jungle half the size of Europe and trying to get back alive. A novel about child soldiers and other terrible African infamies.