The hand that tour guide Neville Edwards noticed waving to him, beckoning him, from the thick of South Africa's Kruger National Park was startling and puzzling at the same time: No sane person would be in the wild on foot and alone. It was only when the scavenging black-backed jackal came into view-the waving arm lodged between its teeth-that Edwards knew another refugee had fallen victim to . the lions. Today, Mozambican refugees are being eaten alive en masse as they attempt to find freedom by walking across Kruger National Park-an area often referred to by travel guides as "Africa's Eden"-yet no one seems to know about these massacres, and nothing is being done to stop them. So begins the investigative journey of award-winning journalist Robert R. Frump. In July of 2002, his plane touched down on the airfields west of Kruger, and what he discovered was beyond belief. The questions he intended to ask were simple, but the issues surrounding them complex.

Was a human life always more valuable than a lion's? If so, why was that not apparent in Kruger? Frump broaches these subjects and many others as he attempts to literally walk the Kruger himself. He presents his findings with a sense of urgency for the truth that unwaveringly portrays the facts as they were revealed to him. THE MAN-EATERS OF EDEN is a deftly written study of the park's two thousand lions, of the helpless refugees, and of the crossed paths the two species travel.