Hell's Gate
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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- £2.99
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Publisher Description
In a corrupt system, can one man make a difference?
How do you punish a detective who challenges the corrupt elite? Send him to Hell. Detective Mollel has been stationed in a beaten-up town on the edge of Hell's Gate National Park. He hasn't been there long before he senses his new colleagues might have something to hide. And when a body is found in the nearby lake, he realises the local police could be involved in more than just extortion and bribery. But in Hell, nothing is ever as it seems . . .
'A compulsive whodunnit set in Kenya, where tribal politics can get you killed' Ian Rankin on the first Detective Mollel novel, THE HONEY GUIDE
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The jaw-dropping opening of Crompton's outstanding second Detective Mollel novel (after 2013's Hour of the Red God) finds the honest Nairobi cop, a Maasai, in prison, surrounded by hostile inmates. When the criminal who runs the prison, Mdosi, summons Mollel to his private room and asks why his men on the outside keep disappearing, their meeting ends in violence. A guard hears a disturbance and catches the detective red-handed, holding a bloody shard of glass and standing over Mdosi's body. A flashback presents the events of the previous week. In doing his job too well by solving a prostitute's murder, Mollel has outraged "some of the most powerful people in the city." His boss demotes and transfers him, literally, to Hell, a small town near Kenya's Hell's Gate national park. Greeted with suspicion by the corrupt local police force, Mollel ends up on a twisted path that leads to his incarceration. Crompton effectively integrates Maasai culture into the absorbing plot.
