If you have ever wondered why the U.S. government has a hands-off approach in its foreign policy toward the African country of Sudan, C. Norman Anderson's Sudan in Crisis will explain this phenomenon. Admittedly, the United States suddenly and unexpectedly torpedoed a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, only last year. This event, however, has been the most notable in a decade of increasing disengagement from this country, which today boasts Africa's longest civil war.