Books Tell You Why, Inc.

A Near Fine edition that has some watermarking to the cloth spine housed in a Very Good dust-jacket that is lightly edgeworn with dampstainting on the inside.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil tells the story of American expatriate writer L.B. "Belva" Tilghman as she travels through the fictional African country of Zaire during the late 1970s. Tilghman is a woman of privilege and experience who is bored by her life in Africa, so she hires a young American man, Johnny Angel, to be her guide and companion. As they travel around Zaire, Tilghman and Angel become enmeshed in a complex web of intrigue and betrayal.; 8vo; 388 pages.