Dr. Jeff Deal

represented by agent Jeanie Pantelakis

The Mark  

The Mark  is an ominously accurate depiction of mid-1980s Sudan which follows Thon Bol as he undertakes the Dinka rites of passage into manhood amid war torn Sudan. Thon takes us from the villages to the cattle camps where he encounters a villainous traitor who learned how to gain power by making artifacts of body parts harvested during child sacrifices. He and his age mate, Matak, pursue the man into the midst of Anyana Two, the name given to Sudan’s last civil war. Thon also seeks his father whom he knew to be fighting with the SPLA (Sudan People’s Liberation Army).

Facing opposition from all sides: a murderer in his own tribe, the Laraap, and nature’s relentless onslaught, who will win this battle?

As a physician and anthropologist working in Sub-Saharan Africa, Deal has first-hand knowledge of the land and its people. Later this year, his ethnography, A Land At the Center of the World: An Ethnography of the Dinka Agaar of South Sudan, (website below) is due to be released.

The Mark is a companion to the ethnography. Deal presently serves as Director of Anthropology and Water Studies of the Center for Global Health at the Medical University of South Carolina. He is a published author of academic works as well as editorials and novels.

“The Mark is a beautiful and brutal book about innocence and its loss, about the ravages of war and the love of family. Jeff Deal has captured with an unflinching eye the clash between warring tribal clans and warring legions of mechanized soldiers, giving us a tremendously powerful tale of what it means to be a Dinka in the midst of the evil of the Sudanese civil war. Deeply moving, intrinsically compelling, I cared beyond measure what happened to Thon on his harrowing road to manhood.”

-          Bret Lott

https://sites.google.com/site/jeffdealbooksandarticles/

http://www.markoulakispublications.org.uk/en/books/9780955747465

The Brethren Plague

The Brethren Plague traces the original documented case of HIV to present day and a terrorist plot to infect the masses. (Based on documented cases and articles both in the critical media and medical journals.)

In 1959, a Bantu hunter, who had cut his hand gutting a monkey, wandered into a medical clinic in the Congo only to die a short while later. Blood samples were taken tested and stored. No one had ever seen this type of case before.

Fifty years later, the world is very familiar with HIV/AIDS. Stigmas and taboos, shunning and ostracizing all who are found infected, society is at odds on who is to blame. It is on every rung of the social ladder. A terrorist group, The Brethren, which consists of HIV positive homosexuals, does not want to die alone. They want to take as many victims with them as they can, unleashing an epidemic through blood bank contamination and even to the point of mutating the strain to survive being airborne; as easy to catch as the common cold…

This is a most believable scenario in such desperate times. Dr. Deal has done extensive research ensuring the accuracy of the information. Having seen and treated HIV victims in Sudan and other Third World countries, he can attest to the personal and physical hardships the suffering must endure.

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