Eclipse by Richard North Patterson

Wow. This  is one of those novels that really grabbed me. It is not your typical legal thriller. Patterson interweaves African atrocities into the novel via his fictionalized country of Luandia, which he patterned after Nigeria. It was also enlightening in its coverage of America’s greed for world oil and the consequences on third world nations that provide the oil. The graphic violence in the novel  unfortunately reflects real world atrocities. The only down side to Eclipse was Patterson’s attempt to educate me came across as preachy…but then again, he did educate me.