M. O. Ene Blighted Blues

Annotation

Chrys Chime, a postgraduate student at Southampton, writes a book: The Wacky World of Dark Dictators. Many Publishers were not impressed, but Pete Alott, an upstart publisher and son of a British publishing mogul decides to gamble on it. The book stirs up the Rastamuffins, an obscure group of fundamentalist Rastafarians, who considered it heretical and a collective insult that Haile Selassie should be maligned as a dictator. The media take up the story, and cowboy publishing triumphs. Chrys's wife, Amanda, is shot in Lagos, Nigeria. Chrys is abducted in London, England. The arrows point to the controversial book. But investigations also reveal a shocking web of intrigues, cultism, family lies, and scams.