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By: Will Ferguson
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781471362576
Subjects: Fathers and daughters; Death; Swindlers and swindling; Fathers; Internet fraud; Fiction
Other titles: Four one nine
Description: A car tumbles down a snowy ravine. Accident or suicide'. On the other side of the world, a young woman walks out of a sandstorm in sub-Saharan Africa. In the labyrinth of the Niger Delta, a young boy learns to survive by navigating through the gas flares and oil spills of a ruined landscape. In the seething heat of Lagos City, a criminal cartel scours the internet looking for victims. Lives intersect, worlds collide, a family falls apart. And it all begins with a single email: Dear Sir, I am the son of an exiled Nigerian diplomat, and I need your help ....
Notes: Originally published: Canada: Penguin (Canada), 2012.