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A high-profile kidnapping. A countdown to a live execution. The race is on to find the victim before the clock hits zero…Rookie cop Bobby Fatokun's first day on the job in Lagos is off to a bad start. Not only has his life in London not prepared him for the hustle of the Nigerian city, but his new boss seems to be missing.When a popular blog is hacked, the horrifying truth becomes clear – Superintendent Adams has been kidnapped, and his captors plan to kill him live on camera in a matter of hours.As chaos unfolds and the team scrambles for leads, Bobby begins to suspect that Adams’ role in the police may have had something to do with his abduction.But without knowing who he can trust, Bobby will have to rely on his instincts alone to find the truth before time runs out.PRAISE FOR LEYE ADENLE:‘Crime fiction’s best new voice for years’ LEE CHILD‘Leye Adenle has my vote for crown prince of crime writers in the UK’ JAMES ELLROY

The first novel in a sharp, timely and darkly funny new private investigator series from a vivid and unforgettable voice in the genre – perfect for fans of Mick Herron's Zoë Boehm and Robert Galbraith's Cormoran Strike.‘Adenle is crime fiction’s best new voice for years’ LEE CHILD​‘Leye Adenle has my vote for crown prince of crime writers in the UK’ JAMES ELLROYBobby Fatokun is no stranger to conspiracies. A former police officer turned ‘Bad Coach’, he spends his days reforming corrupt officers within the Met. But when one of his clients requests an urgent meeting, then immediately turns up dead, Bobby realises something much larger than the two of them is at play.Doubting the official verdict of accidental death, Bobby’s investigation leads him to the church where his client had been working undercover. But he isn’t the only one looking in this direction.The church’s wealthy pastor has a powerful enemy at the heart of the British Establishment – one who will stop at nothing to neutralise a threat. As the pieces of their dangerous gambit fall into place around him, Bobby will have to tread lightly, or his search for the truth will have deadly consequences.

Guy Collins, a British hack, is hunting for an election story in Lagos. A decision to check out a local bar in Victoria Island ends up badly - a mutilated female body is discarded close by and Collins is picked up as a suspect. In the murk of a hot, groaning and bloody police station cell, Collins fears the worst. But then Amaka, a sassy guardian angel of Lagos working girls, talks the police station chief around. She assumes Collins is a BBC journo who can broadcast the city's witchcraft and body parts trade that she's on a one-woman mission to stop.With Easy Motion Tourist's astonishing cast, Tarantino has landed in Lagos. This page turning debut crime novel pulses with the rhythm of Nigeria's mega-city, reeks of its open drains and sparkles like the champagne quaffed in its upmarket districts.

Amaka returns in this gripping sequel to Easy Motion Tourist, and finds herself in more trouble than ever. When a plane crash kills the state gubernatorial candidate, Chief Ojo is picked to replace him. The same Chief Ojo who beat up a girl in The Harem, a secret sex club, and left her for dead. The same Chief Ojo who Amaka caught with pictures and videos of underage sex acts on his phone. Amaka is the only person standing between him and election victory, and Ojo sends hired guns Malik and Shehu after her. Chief Balogun, his powerful father in-law also hires a gang of thugs for the job. Amaka must outwit them all to survive.

The third book in the Amaka Thrillers series.Funke's assignation with her pastor lover is cut short when he is assassinated in their hotel room, as she hides naked and terrified inside a sofa. Desperate for help, she calls on Amaka, who has moved to London. One frantic phone call later and Amaka is headed back to Lagos, where she is thrust into a world of private jets, money-laundering and mega-churches. With the trustworthy Police Inspector Ibrahim out of the country, Amaka has to use all the resources at her disposal, with the hostile Inspector Musa breathing down her neck, and a ticking clock bearing down on her, as she works to rescue Funke and get to the bottom of this tangled web of missing money, dead pastors and corrupt government officials.