When Trouble Sleeps
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At the moment, we only deliver to customers in Ibadan and Abuja. If you will like to have books delivered to you anywhere else in Nigeria, please visit our konga store to make your order.Amaka returns in this gripping sequel to the award wining Easy Motion Tourist, and trouble is not far behind her.
The self-appointed Saviour of Lagos's sex workers, Amaka may have bitten off more than she can chew this time as she finds herself embroilded in a political scandal. When a plane crash kills the state gubernatorial candidate, the party picks a replacement who is assured of winning the election: Chief Ojo. But Amaka knows the skeletons that lurk in Chief Ojo's Closet, including what took place at The Harem, the secret sex club on the outskirts of Lagos.
Amaka is the only person standing between Chief Ojo and election Victory, and he sends hired guns Malik and Shehu after her. Chief Balogun, his powerful father-in-law also hires a gang of thugs for the job. Caught in a game of survival, against a backdrop of corruption, violence, sex and sleaze, Amaka must outwit them all to survive.
Leye Adenle pulls back the curtain on the seedy underbelly of Lagos once again in this gritty and compelling thriller.
In the Niger Delta creeks of Southern Nigeria, nine expatriates are being held hostage by militants fighting for control over the resources for their land. At the same time, a series of seemingly unconnected events rock the country. Alex Randa, a celebrated agent of the Department of State Services, with a compelling record of successes is tasked by the president to secure the release of the hosta..
Warri, October 1992: Seething with idleness and nonchalance, sick of watching his parents fight, 16 year old Ewaen is waiting for university to begin, waiting for something to happen. Months later, Ewaen and friends are finally enrolled as freshmen in the University of Benin. Their routine now consists of hanging out in parking lot trading jibes, chasing girls and sex, and learning to manage the s..
Its 2004 Port Harcourt at the height of the kidnap of oil workers in the Niger Delta, a kidnapping goes awry and four lives are reconnected. Doye (aka Doughboy) the career militant responsible for the crime. Amaibi the gentle university professor/eco warrior accused. Kaniye the lawyer turned restaurateur who tries to get him off and Tubo an amoral oil company executive. Against a backdrop of corru..
Guy Collins, a British hack, is hunting for an election story in Lagos. A decision to check out a local bar in Victoria Island turns out badly - a mutilated female body is discarded close by and Collins is picked up as a suspect. In the murk of a hot, groaning and bloody police station cell, Collins fears the worst. But then Amaka, a sassy guardian angel of Lagos working girls, talks the police st..
Korede is hitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favourite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality is the sisters' saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the trunk of her car is big enough for a body, and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures of her dinner to Ins..
