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Detective Mollel #1
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and
May 2013
On Sale: May 7, 2013
290 pages ISBN: 0374171998 EAN: 9780374171995 Kindle: B008RVH6U6 Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery
The Maasai believe in two gods. Enkai Narok, the Black
God, is benign. Enkai Nanyokie, the Red God, is the god of
anger, vengeance, and death.
Nairobi, 2007. In
Africa’s sprawling megacity, a small elite holds power over
an impoverished, restless majority. Corruption,
exploitation, and ethnic rivalry are part of everyday life.
Amid claims of vote rigging and fraud, the presidential
elections could be the spark that sets this city
ablaze.
With chaos looming, few care about one dead
prostitute. But Detective Mollel does. For Mollel is a
former Maasai warrior, and the dead girl was a Maasai,
too.
As he ventures from slums to skyscrapers, from
suburbs to sewers, Mollel begins to realize that there is
more at stake than just this murder. But even as he is
forced to confront his turbulent past, he begins to doubt
his warrior’s instincts.
Can Mollel manage to find
the killer and solve the case before the Red God consumes
all? With the sophistication of Ian Rankin and
Colin Harrison, and set against the backdrop of Kenya’s
turbulent 2007 elections, Richard Crompton’s Hour of the
Red God brings Nairobi vividly to life: gritty and
modern, with an extraordinary blend of tribal and urban
elements. In this dark thriller, tradition and power
collide, arriving at a shocking, unforgettable end. And in
the Maasai hero Mollel, a new detective icon is born.
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