In the oil-rich region of the Niger-Delta, six armed militants of the United Niger-Delta Brigade steal into an oil jetty station near the Bonny Estuary and murder three foreign expatriates. Cape City, Nigeria. Kingsley Azobi, a Nigerian real-estate developer is facing bankruptcy. His only means of getting out of it: return to ... his former lifestyle as a gun smuggler and supply weapons to the United Niger-Delta Brigade. Just when things can't get any worst, in comes Lionel Parrish, a suave British spy with a secret agenda persuading him to take the job or risk his exposure of his past life. Caught in a web of betrayal and death, Kingsley must do whatever he can to protect himself and his family from being destroyed by a past he once thought to have escaped, knowing that any wrong step could be his last.read more
BIOGRAPHY I was born in 1984, about a mile from SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5, close to where A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN. My father was murdered IN COLD BLOOD when I was about two. He was killed by some UNDERWORLD thugs who were known round the barrio as THE GANG THAT COULDN'T SHOOT STRAIGHT. My mother, a BLACK DAHLIA, couldn't handle me, so... I spent much of my years growing up inside GIOVANNI'S ROOM. At the age of fifteen, I fell in love with a sassy LOLITA; we spent much of our weekends flying kites in the places WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD, and it was around that time that I met MAURICE, who would later become an undying friend, but fifteen years later, he got afflicted with THE SHINNING and his body got washed up in the MYSTIC RIVER.read more