A haunting adventure through the raw and unforgiving landscape of East Africa Pulitzer Prize winner Caputo s Ghosts of Tsavo is hailed by the Washington Post Book World as engrossing amusing and fast-paced. 8-page color photo insert. 1898 Tsavo River Kenya the British Empire has employed 140 workers to build a railroad bridge. The bridge s construction comes to a violent halt when two maneless lions devour all 140 workers in a savage feeding frenzy that would make headlines>and history--all over the world. Caputo s Ghosts of Tsavo is a new quest for truth about the origins of these near-mythical animals and how they became predators of human flesh.