This is a taut thriller set in Nigeria, where Philip Taiwo has to deal with the corruption of a major Pentecostal church, led by Bishop Jeremiah Dawodo. When his wife Sade disappears all hell breaks loose and Philip, his family and his friends are held in a python's grip of circumstances that they have to try to control. If you start reading this at bedtime, resign yourself to a night without sleep because it is too good to put down.
The lump is a human form.
I jump over it and run after the van. It's moving away fast. I fumble for my phone. Running, checking for the camera button. It drives faster. I click on the video. Press record. I run faster, heart pounding, bare feet hurting. It's too dark to make out the number plate. I run faster.
The VW slows to make a turn. I get close enough to see there are no plates. I drop the phone to my side in defeat just as the van disappears into the night.
No time to waste. Pulse racing. I run back to the house. My children are standing outside in their PJs. Folake is bent over the human form.
