Walter John Trowbridge

Architect Darling Walter John Trowbridge

This is a romantic suspense novel involving an American Architect who arrived in Dar-es-Salam, Tanzania, East Africa, to be the Site Architect for the construction of the University College in Tanzania. He falls in love with a beautiful Goan girl from the former Portuguese colony of Goa in Indian, but their love is forbidden as it violates social custom and is vigorously resisted by the girl's father. Their affair evolves through various secret meetings, visits to historic sites, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, the rise of terrorism in East Africa, and safaris through some of world's greatest big game animal parks. It reaches a climax in their attempt to get married in a Catholic Church in the old Portuguese city of Mombasa in Kenya with the girl's father in hot pursuit, and the couple's struggle to escape amid the man's malaria attack and the bombing of the US Embassy.