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The
2004 Award
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The
Pygates by
Nelson Karanja |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| News
that six patients held in a highly guarded military mental hospital have
staged a daring escape rocks the small Central African nation of Manabi.
The news turns bizarre when investigative journalist, Jack Sila, uncovers
the identity of one of the patients - Mrs. Anna Molanddi, wife of former
Attorney General of the neighbouring country of Zamboha, who was believed
to have died together with her husband and other senior government and military
officials thirteen years ago in a plane crash. When Jack pursues Anna in her escape to Zamboha, he learns that the only link to the past is a young woman called Gabi on death row for a crime she did not commit. Through the help of a retired brigadier, he discovers that beneath numerous, seemingly viable company mergers and takeovers, lies a sinister conspiracy to take over the entire central African region. Only one man can stop the takeover - a man named Hawk; and he died thirteen years ago, or did he? On the wings of this intriguing drama awaits a ruthless tyrant who will stop at nothing. He has set his target. He has no record of failure. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Nelson
Karanja was born in Kenya in 1968 and educated in Jomo Kenyatta University.
The Pygates is his first novel. He is currently living and studying in
London, UK, with his wife and is working on a second novel, Freak
Wave.
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