The visionary adventure begins on the Savannah in Eastern Africa, c. l962. We
meet a baboon family. (Baboons are the only existing animal culture to witness
the untimely end of past civilizations)
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Next, we meet human family; husband and wife scientists with a young son, who
are in Africa to save the baboons from extinction by relocating them.
Although the couple is in Africa to prevent annihilation, Alex, the
husband—while he journeys along the Savannah for many weeks with the
baboons—finds his connection with history while he communicates in his unique
tongue with the baboon tribe.
A CIA agent, McClay, is hunting Alex down because McClay has discovered that
Alex is writing a book titled, Animal Warfare. McClay has convinced the US
government that Alex is training animals for warfare against the USA.
The baboons journey across Africa hundreds of miles to escape death by the
farmer vigilantes. After being ambushed at a farmhouse, they take Alex––who has
been accidentally shot and is unconscious––with them to save his life. The
tribe, enlarging as it travels to four hundred, reaches their Eden, the
Mountains of the Moon, but the troubles aren’t over.
Alex and Sara’s son Jesse is airlifted to a hospital with a life-threatening
condition from lupus. From then on, the pace is picked up when a shooting, a
murder and an unsolved mystery enter the story.
"A clear, concise and emotionally convincing narrative of the interplay among baboons, naturalists, and the CIA from which one
learns that to say some humans behave like baboons is a slur upon the baboons."