Camp had spent a sleepless night in his father’s house on the outskirts of Limi. It sat inside a walled estate on a hill overlooking the town, and like all the moneyed residences there, it...
Theodora watched, anxious, as her husband packed. “I don’t want you to leave right now, Idi.”
Camp turned to her and smiled. “I know, my love. But I can’t let these phoney charges stop me from...
Governor Huud sat in his office staring at the budget breakdown. Since his conversation with Tiko about power, who had it and who didn’t, and about this wife, who now occupied the office adjoining his,...
Peter Abel sat in Chief Benson’s office the next morning and finished recounting his misadventure the night before. Benson slid the results of the preliminary police report across his desk. Abel opened it and read...
As Peter Abel stepped off his British Airways flight at Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos, he inhaled the familiar warm tropical air. As always, Abel was aware of a sweet smell that was stronger than even...
Whenever he saw himself in his dressing mirror, Camp was always thankful to God for allowing him to reach his diminutive height of five feet. Fat and chubby-faced, he was convinced he would have looked...
Timo Tiko and Rika Huud watched the conference from the comfort of Tiko’s palatial Bammakk City home where he had arranged for a closed-circuit TV to bring the spectacle directly to his bedroom. They missed...
The next morning at ten o’clock, Idi Camp sat beside Governor Huud on the dais listening to Doctor Maka’s keynote address. The room was filled with dozens of university professors, government officials, students and above...
Twack! Peter Abel’s dart burrowed into double eleven and he was out. Clarke swore and sat down on his stool, totally deflated. He and Abel had met here at the White Horse for the third...
Governor Huud met Party Chairman Timo Tiko in the chairman’s palatial home. Tiko, with the sang-froid of a man who had all he needed or would ever need, waved a glass of lemonade in the...