About The Author

Charles E. Webb

Charles E. Webb is a native of Huntington, WV, and graduated with a BS in Elect. Engineering from Rose-Hulman Inst. of Technology. He has MBA studies from several universities and specific courses from Wharton, Harvard, and GE-Crotonville. Chuck had an extensive and very successful career in business development, marketing, sales management, strategic planning, and general management spanning over 48 years with GM, GE, FMC, Cooper Industries, Koch Industries, Aearo Safety, WESCO Distribution, and Graybar Electric. He worked for these companies in the global and domestic utility, electrical, petroleum, mining, automotive, and safety industries, including over 23 years in international business development worldwide. He is a published author of several technical articles, a published novel, Downfall and Freedom, a story about the global arms trade, South Africa, and the KwaZulu, and is a Life Member of the IEEE. He is married for over 55 years and has three daughters and three grandchildren

About The Book

Downfall and Freedom

Thousands of miles apart, John Wesley Zooma and Clarence VanDyke Jackson witness horrific events in their young livesevents that ultimately shape the direction of their future. Zooma is a full member of the Zulu tribe in Natal, South Africa, and Jackson is an African American in a small town in south-central Mississippi. Following the traumatic events of their youths, they vow to exact revenge someday. Years later, the two become connected through Jacksons illegal arms trade business.

When Jackson falls in love with a Brazilian woman, he decides its time to leave the arms trade behindbut not before brokering one last deal with his partner, a German man named Carl Durnbacher. But Durnbacher doesnt take well to Jacksons defection from the partnership, and he orders a hit on Jackson.

In the meantime, trouble is brewing in South Africa, where Zooma is privy to the details of the impending uprising. He uses his resources to aid friend Michael Stephens, who had saved his life during a work accident, escape the country with his family instead of being killed.