The Ultimate Prize

President Idrissa Bandada didn't think much when he cancelled anacclaimed freest and fairest election ever held in black Africa. Butthe events to follow would soon force the now retired general into arethink.</P>A supposed respectable businessman gets killed in a five-star hotelin the eastern city of Enugu. In a politically volatile country suchdeaths are no news.</P>But when such gruesome ends start repeating in quick successionone name The Dean; the unseen assassin claiming the murders;sends panic throughout the entire nation.</P>The new President Sabo Achaba isn't going to fold hands in AsoRock. He sends the security service the SSS and soon his specialelite guards the B-Gang to get rid of the supposedly sole gunman.But The Dean is proving difficult to get that it seems the combinedforces of the SSS and B-Gang are not professional enough.Meanwhile The Dean the intractable assassin glides slowly withhis team to the major target-General Achaba in Aso Rock. They callit Operation Octopus .</P>A racing hat-topping suspense-filled thriller that mirrors an erasteeped in military adventurism in Nigeria's not-too-distant past. If<i>The Senator</I> was engrossing <i>The Ultimate Prize</I> will simply keepyou on toes.<br><i>-Henry Okoduwa (The Sun)</I>