Despite its bold cover, this is a book written strictly about love; but love is a complicated feeling and the resultant of many components that vary both in space and in time. Thus, a reader going through its pages of this novel may eventually become confused, since his primal emotional reactions may cloud his final judgement on its deeper essence. This is an intentional choice because nothing is simple and the composition of a poison is often identical to a beneficial medicine but in larger dosage.Love is even more complicated than that because besides its real ingredients it also involves a general dose of wild imagination. Therefore, love could be an even more complicated entity than even a multidimensional complex vector.A psychiatrist with a background in fluid dynamics or in strength of materials, may even claim that love is a multidimensional tensor, because it creates stresses and strains in every direction not just between the lover and the beloved, but also on the environment. Then, no one may be able to discern what love really is, unless he is a sophisticated engineer, or a simpleminded American movie hero like Forrest Gump.However, even such a mathematically complicated model may fail in few cases, and the main reason for this unfortunate but sometimes painful failure is that love contains secrets, mysteries causing grave inaccuracies, as it is also subjective and highly individualistic, not objective and accurately measurable, as for instance, body temperature or body weight are; thus, there is no hope for mankind to ever construct a love-meter as easily and as cheaply as a thermometer or even as accurate as an electronic scale. Thus, love may require the use of a computer, as many web sites offering date services claim. Unfortunately, as any mature reader should know, love at any particular moment in time depends also to a great extent on the beholder's imagination, a factor which accounts for numerous couple matching failures.Nevertheless, the author is still optimistic and emphasizes a fact that almost everyone agrees upon, namely that one of love's principal components is sexual attraction; thus at least one of its component can be easily measured by a weight scale, as loveless people gain weight, or even using a ruler, in case of males. On the other hand, the more complicated a system, the greater the errors it produces, if few of its delicate components start erring.Vision is supposedly the queen of the senses and the most complicated of all, but it often creates mirages, if the analyzer is under the influence of sunlight, not only of alcohol or drugs. Natural hormones or pheromones can also affect it. Then, experience has shown that the simple sense of touch may produce more reliable results than the acute eye of a hungry vulture ready to feast on an abandoned lover's broken heart.Another factor spiritually influencing love by infusing valuable energy is the sacred urge for the procreation of the species, i.e. a factor that adds the dimension of divinity to every vulgar attempt to accurately describe what love is. Nevertheless, this simple observation creates the suspicion that perhaps love must be analyzed with the tools of the Einstein's relativity theory, a suspicion that may be justly confirmed, if one considers the undeniable phenomenon of love at first sight, proving that love travels with the speed of light.The author trusts that in controversial cases it is safer for any analyzer is to keep a safe distance from the combat zone. Consequently for a flock of vultures circling in the skies of East Africa's Rift Valley using telescopic vision to discover an unprotected lion kill, this novel with the peculiar foggy, dreamlike cover is simply about the exploits of a financially successful but restless, blond, blue-eyed American maiden seduced by a charming but conniving Oriental revolutionary to enter his harem in Southern Sudan, and a testimony of how zoophilia can lead to hunting.
