The main character is the dictator's former right hand man. He is declared a war criminal by the dictator and sentenced to hang. He may have turned on his former boss. He is granted access to a priest to whom he confesses everything he's done. He calls himself a drummer boy because he wasn't gripped with power. For most of his career he was trying to do the right thing through questionable means. And he got caught up in it until is conscience became heavy.
God doesn't laugh at those He judges. The "man" is the dictator who caught his former supporter when he could no longer be part of his system. On hanging day, the rest the dictator's men call him Judas. The diamonds are really love or at least sex. So he gets in an obscene gesture towards the dictator before the sudden drop.
The main character is the dictator's former right hand man. He is declared a war criminal by the dictator and sentenced to hang. He may have turned on his former boss. He is granted access to a priest to whom he confesses everything he's done. He calls himself a drummer boy because he wasn't gripped with power. For most of his career he was trying to do the right thing through questionable means. And he got caught up in it until is conscience became heavy.
God doesn't laugh at those He judges. The "man" is the dictator who caught his former supporter when he could no longer be part of his system. On hanging day, the rest the dictator's men call him Judas. The diamonds are really love or at least sex. So he gets in an obscene gesture towards the dictator before the sudden drop.