On perhaps the most tedious day of her job as a society journalist, Ona Pepple finds herself singled out by a retired ECOMOG soldier who has shockingly murdered several guests at a high-profile book launch in mid-town Port Harcourt. Equally surprising is what the ‘Old Soldier’ goes on to recount to her as the hours tick by – a tale of betrayal, greed and unexpected love that lies behind his own act of wanton brutality and originating from the battlefields of a war-tornnation.
When an unusual accomplice joins in, it sets off a series of events that threaten to expose a shadowy conspiracy and puts her life – as well as that of those around her – in grave danger!
