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Sebati Edward MafateAuthor & independent filmmaker
An elephant in the waters of Botswana’s Okavango DeltaBotswana The McDaniels brothers
Downtown Los Angeles beneath an evening skyCalifornia The Price brothers

A political action thriller by Sebati Edward Mafate

BLOOD BROTHERS

Two brotherhoods.
One collision.

Meet both families
Published cover of Blood Brothers by Sebati Edward Mafate

The featured novel

Blood Brothers

2022 · 584 pages
Softcover & eBook

One pair of brothers is trying to build a new life.
The other is building an empire.
A robbery puts them on a collision course.

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Inside the novel

The title belongs
to both families.

Botswana → United States

The McDaniels brothers

SASHA
& DUMI.

A family to hold on to.

Born on the same day. Raised as brothers. Dumi was adopted at birth; his bond with Sasha is the center of their lives.

After poachers kill their documentary-filmmaker parents, the brothers leave Botswana for America. They are looking for a beginning.

Their bond
Family beyond biology
Their stakes
Each other. Their lives.
California → Political power

The Price brothers

GIL
& DECLANE.

An empire to hold on to.

Money, crime and political influence connect the Price brothers’ interests in California.

Gil is a senator with ambitions for the White House. Declane’s criminal activities form the other side of the family’s power.

Their reach
Business, crime, politics
Their stakes
Power. And keeping it.

Two kinds of loyalty.
About to occupy the same story.

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Where their worlds meet

THE WRONG
THING TO
WITNESS.

An armored-car robbery.
Two men who saw too much.

Sasha and Dumi unknowingly witness the heist. The men behind it cannot afford loose ends—and the conspiracy reaches toward the White House.

For the McDaniels brothers, a new life in America becomes a fight to get out alive.

The way out

Now, survival means
finding a way home.

On foot toward the Mexican border, the brothers hope to catch a flight back to Botswana. Their pursuers are getting closer.

“An expertly wrought political thriller that grabs immediately and demands attention.”
Tyler Denning — BestThrillers.com ↗

The storyteller

Sebati Edward
Mafate.

Novelist. Memoirist.
Independent filmmaker.

Sebati Edward Mafate holding a copy of Memories of Lotsane
Sebati with Memories of Lotsane
“I love telling a story, either on paper, the big screen, or around a fire.”

Born in Zambia and raised in Botswana and South Africa, Sebati writes across fiction and memoir, and works in independent film.

At Lotsane, a teacher encouraged his writing and brought him into the drama club. His school experiences later became Memories of Lotsane: The Chronicles of an African Boarding School.

In conversation with Africa in Dialogue

A novel that became a film

His page-to-screen story
has already happened.

When the
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COBRAThe feature film · Distributed by Lionsgate
On bringing the novel to screen

Selected work

The human leopard.
The lives remembered.
The dangers within.

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Fantasy & legend

The Kahuru
books

Kahuru: The Making
of an African Legend

Followed by

The Triumphs of Kahuru

The human-leopard saga continues.

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Love & mortality

Ironic

The day Adam meets Lucy
is the day his future changes.

A diagnosis leaves Adam Mashabela with little time. Lucy does not know what he is keeping from her.

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Ambition & obsession

The Devil’s
Concubine

How far will Raymond Pata
go to become a star?

His ambition turns murderous. Then Geraldine enters his life.

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Back to the McDaniels brothers

A LONG WAY
FROM BOTSWANA.
A BOND THAT HOLDS.

Sasha. Dumi. And the dangerous road home.

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