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Deng hated the fact that his mum always asked him to look after his baby sister, Nyankor, when it was raining. Rainy weekends were the times for fun with his friends near their favorite mango tree by the forest. When it kept raining, and he couldn't join his friends for a play-in-the-rain-merriment, Deng cursed the rain out of innocence and anger. Little did Deng know that his cursing the rain would set in a series of mind-boggling events. Soon the drought set in, a crow started talking to him and Deng thought he was losing his mind. The crow assured Deng that he (Deng) wasn't losing his mind. Who'd believe anyone who claims to talk to crows anyway? Deng first avoided his friends (Ochang, Aluel, Nyakong, Nyoka and Lado) for fear that they might make fun of him. Deng then confided in his neighbor, an old lady named Nyan-nhial. However, Deng realized that Nyan-nhial was playing him by being politely evasive. As the crow started stalking Deng, Deng's friends angry that he'd not confided in them and the rain not raining, Deng had a huge task on his hands. What would Deng do?

Editorial Review Little Michael, Christopher Fox and Isaac Burns don't know that their paths will cross and their lives changed in a cruel manner that sees them through the intricate web of Africa's political heartache, manifested in a well-orchestrated coup attempt in the African country of Sivals. Little witnesses an overnight success of his business only to see the building burnt down in a calculated sabotage. Chris sees his life changed from prominence to near pauperism. Isaac Burns thinks, with blunt self-righteousness, that his philanthropic work is enough an effort to win the hearts of his fellow countrymen in Panda, and the whole of the African continent. He'd soon learn the bitter reality of his capitalist life. The problem though is the three men don't know that someone is watching every single step they take in their lives. Will they learn the bitter truth? The truth will first taste bitter before the end of their nightmares. The Pipers, a politically-charged group that infiltrates governments and multinational corporations and forces them to help the poor, has marked the three men for a real life's experimental cruelty. Isaac Burns is shown the bitter reality of corruption, greed and political blackmail, which is aided by his investments. Innocent civilians are being ruthlessly displaced from their villages in South Sudan around oil fields without compensation. It's Isaac's investment in play. Only The Pipers will show Mr. Burns that wealth acquisition shouldn't be a poor people's livelihood antithesis. Little Michael's teenage drugs involvement lands him in jail only to meet big black men with radical, infectious Pan-Africanism. His leaving jail, he doesn't know, is only the beginning of his African adventure that will see him hate his African brothers before he realizes the truth of his Africanism. Christopher Fox sees his life soar only to crumble in a flash. He's brought back to the company of his high school buddy, Little, and Isaac, the CEO of the company in which he mysteriously lost his job. Chris is thrown into an orchestrated poverty meant to make him experience how it feels to be a poor, taken-for-granted African man. The three men involuntarily descend on Africa in a political roller coaster. It'll be a test of power-players' humanity, emotive elasticity, and the extent of human greed and political and economic opportunism.