Critiques en avant-premièreNdubichi Okezue

In Nigeria's pre-internet era of the early 1990s, Detective-Inspector Ikenna Kodilinye of Lagos State Police Command is on the trail of a group of Nigerian swindlers specialized in enticing gullible European and American businessmen with “too–good–to–be–true” scams with disastrous consequences.

This work of fiction is set in six countries with Nigeria being the primary location where most of the events in the novel play out. Throughout the novel, references are made to the history, culture, politics and geography of Nigeria and other countries featured as well.

In July 1993, a Lagos city police detective is ordered by his superior to travel to the faraway city of Enugu to assist the local police over there with their investigations. He is reluctant to go to Enugu because of the trauma that he suffered there as child during the Nigerian Civil War(1967-1970). This short story chronicles the frustration that Detective-Inspector Ikenna Kodilinye is undergoing while stuck in the notorious Lagos city traffic enroute to the airport from where he is scheduled to fly to Enugu. Between an annoyingly talkative taxi driver, the chaotic gridlock outside and the emotional turmoil brought on by the reawakening of repressed childhood memories, the frustrated detective struggles inside his taxicab to keep himself cool under the sweltering citywide heatwave. Then he relieves his childhood trauma from decades past, and comes to the realization that his superior's order to travel to Enugu was serendipitous— a chance to finally experience catharsis.