The discovery of a decaying body in the bush off a remote mountain road in Uganda's Western Province sparks off a complex, exacting investigation to find the killers, punctuated by flashes of intuition and some bizarre twists of fate. Dead End at Buffalo Corner's author, D.J. 'Jock' Macdonald, who headed up the investigation, was an Assistant Superintendent in the Colonial Police in charge of a 2000 square mile district straddling the equator in the shadow of the fabled Mountains of the Moon. Against the background of the disruption caused by a massive influx of refugees over his border, he...