"When a body is discovered half-eaten by animals in Ngong Forest, Ishmael Fofona - the world-weary US detective - and O - his irrepressible Kenyan counterpart - are called in as consultants by the Kenyan police. For this body is not any body. Not anybody at all, in fact. The forest is notorious as a place of execution - the great and not so good of the Kenyan underworld almost always eventually wash up there with a bullet in them - but none of the crime bosses are MIA and no one seems to know anything about the body in Ngong. What starts out as a simple case of identifying a corpse will lead Ishmael and O across continents and deep into a plot to destabilise an entire nation." -- Back cover.