Gethsemane is a look at one of the most dangerous places in the world and the people who volunteer to live there. The novel follows a year at a Doctors Without Borders clinic in the Congo Jungle. Gethsemane shows two Doctors as they deal with death, fear and, eventually, life.  Fusing fiction with the terrifying facts about the region, Gethsemane delivers a look at a world where laws hold no consequence and pain  and hatred fuel a populace.