The Last German Rupie

By Emil Sylvester Mdinda

Tabora, 1916. An empire is collapsing, and it owes three hundred and twelve people their wages.

As enemy columns close on German East Africa, askari sergeant Makoye Luchagula helps hide a consignment from an emergency mint. Beside the gold lies something far more dangerous: a payroll register naming the Africans the colony never paid.

More than a century later, a Tanzanian farmer turns up a coin carrying three deliberate marks. In Germany, an indebted engineer inherits an old survey sheet, the other half of the same record, and a warning born from the unexplained death of the last relative who went looking.

Their separate searches collide in Tabora, drawing a secret government unit, a collector who buys silence, and men willing to kill for evidence that could turn a colonial fortune into something far more valuable: proof of a debt.

The gold belongs to whoever can seize it. The debt belongs to the dead.

The Last German Rupie is a dual timeline historical thriller about inheritance, restitution and the people a ledger can still name a hundred years later.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HKFB9YTB
• ISBN13: 9798175199858
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"