num_pages: 421
description: Accra private investigator Emma Djan's first missing persons case will lead her to the darkest depths of the email scams and fetish priests in Ghana the world's Internet capital. When her dreams of rising through the police ranks like her late father crash around her 26-year-old Emma Djan is unsure what will become of her life in Accra. Through a sympathetic former colleague Emma gets an interview with a private detective agency tracking down missing persons thefts and marital infidelities. Its not the future she imagined but its her best option. Meanwhile Gordon Tilson a middle-aged widower in Washington DC has found solace in an online community after his wifes passing. Through the support group hes even met a young Ghanaian widow he really cares about and when her sister gets into a car accident he sends her thousands of dollars to cover the hospital billto the horror of his only son Derek. When Gordon runs off to Ghana to surprise his new love and disappears Derek chases after him fearing for his fathers life. The case of the missing American man will drag both Emma and Derek into a world of sakawa scams fetish priests and those willing to keep things secret through death.
language: English
title: The Missing American
publisher: Soho Crime