The vicinity is the tough neighborhoods of East London, versus the
richer and whiter West London. Boy is a private eye formerly in the paid
service of the government, now freelancing. A mysterious man turns up
and pays him the biggest advance he’d ever had for any case, forty
grand. And all he has to do is to find a particular special woman to be
his queen in his country-side estate, within seven days. He thinks it’s
going to be easy, until unusual things start happening.
We
are taken through the various sides of the city, the street hustlers
and drug dealers, the life of the rich in a black-life resort located in
the west, nightclub and show violence, hired thugs, and the spiritual
lord known as the Race Man, the sport of cricket and an annual event
between the West and the Rest. Boy manages to find the woman at last,
but falls so in love with her that he’d rather kill his client than give
her up to him. He discovered much too late that the man was after all a
god known as
Eshu (the fallen patron’s saint), and that he had
been sent to him. The result of his stabbing the man to death was that
he too had to fall.
Author: Diran Adebayo
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