Yahoo Boys

Real Life with the Love Scammers of Lagos

AvCarlos Barragán

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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A NEW YORK TIMES MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 'AFFECTING' TELEGRAPH'ENGROSSING' ECONOMIST'MIRACULOUS' WIRED'MORE THAN CRIME REPORTAGE' WALL STREET JOURNALWhen his mother fell for an 'American soldier' who promised to send gold bars to their Madrid apartment, Carlos Barragán found himself with an unexpected window into the shadowy world of online romance fraud. He set off on a journey to find his mother's scammer, but what he discovered was much bigger: a world of young Nigerian men who drag themselves out of destitution by catfishing lonely hearts in the US and Europe, in the process building a dizzying local economy from their phones.The Yahoo Boys follows four scammers in Ikotun - one of Lagos's poorest neighbourhoods, a scant ten miles from the gleaming heart of the megacity. Through their twisting fortunes, Barragán discovers the psychological tactics they perfect, the economic desperation that drives them, and the moral dilemmas they face. A work of radical empathy, this astonishing narrative nonfiction debut reveals the human face behind a global phenomenon, and shows how isolation in the West and poverty in Nigeria are just two sides of the same screen.'BARRAGÁN WRITES WITH IMPECCABLE EMPATHY . . . COMPELLINGLY READABLE' BARBARA DEMICK'ASTONISHING . . . I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN. A TOUR DE FORCE' JON LEE ANDERSON 'BOTH INTIMATELY PERSONAL AND GLOBALLY RELEVANT' DIPO FALOYIN'AN ENVIABLE FEAT OF REPORTAGE AND WRITING - AS INTREPID AS IT IS SYMPATHETIC' GIDEON LEWIS-KRAUS

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-06-11
Mått:160 x 238 x 30 mm
Vikt:504 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Orion Publishing Co
ISBN:9781399632188

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Mer om författaren

Carlos Barragán is a reporter and researcher at the New York Times based in Spain. Raised in Madrid, he earned an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University. The Yahoo Boys is his first book.

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[Barragán] discovered a whole new world, one in which the internet promises a route out of chronic poverty, and where answers to the West's ongoing loneliness epidemic are - however temporarily - being offered by people almost as desperate . . . Affecting . . . It would be easy to dismiss the Yahoo boys as nothing more than heartless manipulators, yet I found some of my sympathies - to my surprise - lying with them