Akintunde Akinkunmi

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Produktbeschreibung

It is a story about Mike, a Nigerian-born lawyer turned investment banker in the City of London. Despite career and financial success, he is not wholly happy with his job and his life. A chance encounter at the theatre with an old school friend launches him on a second career of public service back home in Nigeria. In addition to finding contentment in doing a worthwhile job, he also finds love, and marries Ronke, a fellow returnee from the UK, with whom he starts a family.

The trouble begins when he refuses to indulge in the standard Nigerian game of bending rules and cutting corners on a big Ports privatization project in which his erstwhile boss, a former Minister who successfully runs for election as a State Governor, has an interest. The Governor's shadowy financial backers take a dim view of this, and decide to teach Mike a lesson in the realities of politics and business in Nigeria; it goes horribly wrong, and Mike's wife and twin son and daughter end up dead.

With the help of two maverick members of a shadowy elite unit within the Nigeria Police, Mike sets out to bring his family's killers to justice. But how does one reach a serving Governor with immunity from prosecution, and the shadowy business and criminal community with whom he's entwined? Mike and his friends develop a plan to do just that, that takes the story at a fast past pace through various parts of Nigeria, via Dubai and several parts of the USA, to the final denouement in a New York courtroom.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BookBaby
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781483563718
• Artikelnr.: 44824037

Autorenporträt

AKINTUNDE AKINKUNMI was born and brought up in Ibadan, Nigeria. He attended medical school at the country's premier university-the University of Ibadan, followed by a stint of service with the Brigade of Guards of the Nigerian Army Thereafter he relocated to the United Kingdom in the late 1980s, and over the next twenty-five years combined service in the British Army Reserve with postgraduate training as a forensic psychiatrist, while earning a law degree along the way. He is the proud father of four daughters, to whom this first book of his is dedicated with great affection. He hopes the work of fiction will be the start of his fourth career-as a writer, as his medical, military, and legal careers gradually wind down. He is currently at work on his second book-Hubris: A Brief Political History of the Nigerian Army drawing on his personal experience of service with the military establishment and from a painstaking private research work he has engaged in over several years on the subject matter.