Will Ferguson
A startlingly original tale of heartbreak and suspense,A car tumbles down a snowy ravine. Accident or suicide?,On the other side of the world, a young woman walks out of a sandstorm in sub-Saharan Africa. In the labyrinth of the Niger Delta, a young boy learns to survive by navigating through the gas flares and oil spills of a ruined landscape. In the seething heat of Lagos City, a criminal cartel scours the internet looking for victims.,Lives intersect, worlds collide, a family falls apart. And it all begins with a single email: â€œDear Sir, I am the son of an exiled Nigerian diplomat, and I need your help ...â€,419 takes readers behind the scene of the worldâ€™s most insidious internet scam. When Lauraâ€™s father gets caught up in one such swindle and pays with his life, she is forced to leave the comfort of North America to make a journey deep into the dangerous back streets and alleyways of the Lagos underworld to confront her fatherâ€™s killer. What she finds there will change her life forever...
Fiction,Cultural,Canada,Cultural,Africa,Mystery,Book Club,Contemporary,Western Africa,Nigeria,Mystery,Crime,Suspense,Literary Fiction
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