Si Ian Ranking says that a detective novel is addictive, it will be a matter of taking it seriously. I must have thought something like this when I saw this crime novel set in Kenya. The unusual scenarios for this genre, usually arouse some unfair prejudices, but the truth is that it is finally worth escaping from those initial reluctance.
El Detective Mollel's new fate It is a small town in deep Kenya. He hoped to thrive in Nairobi, but his lust for justice, with which he hoped to please his superiors, ended up being a drag. He was supposed to do good, but good turns out to be a fuzzy subject when it comes to the higher social strata.
With deep disappointment and considerable exhaustion, Mollel assumes his new destiny. What his superiors, promoted at the request of powerful men who were cornered by the police, did not know that Mollel could be even more dangerous to power from a distant space.
In Hell's Gate National Park, different peoples, ethnic groups or tribes settle, with their continuous tensions. The murder of a woman who works for a large export company awakens Mollel's investigative instinct and what he discovers brings him closer to the tentacles of power, which apparently reach all parts of the country.
Suddenly the conflicts between tribes begin to manifest themselves for Mollel as an extension of those interests of the powerful, capable of confronting peoples, mobilizing them and removing them from new sources of wealth to plunder. And even further, the ultimate reason for the powerful to meddle in the ordinary lives of the tribes is due to the demand of the global market, even more powerful multinationals that pay very well for raw materials in exchange for death and destruction.
Mollel feels that the world conspires against him, against his Maasai origin, against any form of life that threatens his lust for wealth. He will give himself completely to the cause, hoping to reveal to the world what is happening in his country, in case someone might be interested ...
Richard Crompton, in his capacity as a journalist for the BBC in Africa, flaunts his knowledge of various issues on the African continent.
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