The Bandits Amongst Us

Bernard Maneboko was born in a village in rural Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. He had a bright future, attended a prestigious school, and had dreams of becoming a police officer. But his dreams were disrupted on the cold December night in1999 when the brigands broke into his family’s home and burnt it to the ground. In this first full-length novel to be published by a Solomon Islander in 40 years, we join Bernard in his fight against loggers