Panic began as so many things do in Carp, a poor town of twelve thousand people in the middle of nowhere: because it was summer,
...It is 1914. In the heart of the Belgian Congo, Garvey, a bedraggled British manservant, emerges from the jungle. He is the lone survivor of a mining expedition. With him, he carries two huge diamonds. From his prison cell in London, Garvey recounts his ho