NO TELEPHONE TO HEAVEN

<p>Lagos 1977 the eve of FESTAC Nigeria's great celebration of African culture and arts. The body of a young man Marcus Diello is found. He has been brutally murdered. </p><p><br></p><p>Cyril a police inspector dealing with his first murder case in the capital since arriving from Benin faces pressures from his bosses who want the murder swept under the carpet - and from Marcus's friends and colleagues who demand explanations. Why was an innocent life taken? Was it a ritual murder or robbery? </p><p><br></p><p>On the back of Lagos buses it says: God's judgement no appeal - no telephone to heaven. With help from Marcus's three friends and a young Englishman with his own secrets Cyril is caught up in a world of power politics gun-running antiquities smuggling and African nationalism as he attempts to discover why an innocent man bled to death on a Lagos pavement in the early hours of the morning.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>