Children of the Street
Author | : Kwei Quartey |
Publisher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2011-07-12 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780812981674 |
ISBN-13 | : 0812981677 |
Rating | : 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: In the slums of Accra, Ghana’s fast-moving, cosmopolitan capital, teenagers are turning up dead. Inspector Darko Dawson has seen many crimes, but this latest string of murders—in which all the young victims bear a chilling signature—is 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 city’s underbelly and confronts the brutal world of the urban poor, where street children are forced to fight for their very survival—and a cunning killer seems just out of reach.