num_pages: 334
description: In the slums of Accra Ghanas fast-moving cosmopolitan capital teenagers are turning up dead. Inspector Darko Dawson has seen many crimes but this latest string of murdersin which all the young victims bear a chilling signatureis the most unsettling of his career. Are these heinous acts a form of ritual killing or the work of a lone cold-blooded monster? With time running out Dawson embarks on a harrowing journey through the citys underbelly and confronts the brutal world of the urban poor where street children are forced to fight for their very survivaland a cunning killer seems just out of reach.
language: English
title: Children of the Street
publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks