The Honey Guide (Mollel, #1)

Posted on 15 June 2018 by Richard Crompton

The Maasai believe in two gods Enkai Narok, the Black God, is benign Enkai Nanyokie, the Red God, is the god of anger, vengeance, and death.Nairobi, 2007 In Africa s sprawling megacity, a small elite holds power over an impoverished, restless majority Corruption, exploitation, and ethnic rivalry are part of everyday life Amid claims of vote rigging and fraud, the presidential elections could be the spark that sets this city ablaze With chaos looming, few care about one dead prostitute But Detective Mollel does For Mollel is a former Maasai warrior, and the dead girl was a Maasai, too As he ventures from slums to skyscrapers, from suburbs to sewers, Mollel begins to realize that there is at stake than just this murder But even as he is forced to confront his turbulent past, he begins to doubt his warrior s instincts Can Mollel manage to find the killer and solve the case before the Red God consumes all With the sophistication of Ian Rankin and Colin Harrison, and set against the backdrop of Kenya s turbulent 2007 elections, Richard Crompton s Hour of the Red God brings Nairobi vividly to life gritty and modern, with an extraordinary blend of tribal and urban elements In this dark thriller, tradition and power collide, arriving at a shocking, unforgettable end And in the Maasai hero Mollel, a new detective icon is born.One ofPublishers Weekly s Best Mystery Thriller Books of 2013 Best Read [ The Honey Guide (Mollel, #1) ] By [ Richard Crompton ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Nairobi, Kenya in 2007 is a city torn Endemic corruption, ethnic violence, and tribal jealousy are just another fact of life It s a place of huge contrasts from wealthy enclaves to slums, rich ministers and power brokers to prostitutes and beggars It is so vastly different from America it s like stepping off a cliff into a new world In Richard Crompton s capable hands and descriptive prose, Nairobi comes alive b...A thrilling crime novel, based in Kenya in 2007 A prostitute is found dead and mutilated, but the majority of the police force are uninterested in investigating Our hero Mollel is the exception he has a strong sense of justice, and will go to any lengths to catch a criminal even abandoning his 9 year old son in the street in pursuit of thief in the novel s opening chapter Mollel is a slightly unconventional hero he grew up to be a warrior in the Maasai tribe, before deserting to become a A thrilling crime novel, based in Kenya in 2007 A prostitute is found dead and mutilated, but the majority of the police force are uninterested in investigating Our hero Mollel is the exce...The Honey Guide by Richard Crompton takes place in Nairobi, Kenya in late December 2007 during the corrupt election for a new president I was especially interested in this book as I was in Nairobi at the exact time that the novel takes place I was not able to leave my hotel because of the gun fire in the streets and the general chaos but I knew what was going on Interestingly, so many Kenyans came up to me and asked me if I thought that Obama had a chance of winning They were...This was a really hard book to read not least because the speech was never marked so the book was pretty much all over the place I get that this was the authors style and it was pretty brave to approach a first novel in this way but still it was heavy going That being said I kept going with it because I wanted to know the outcome, so the book must have hooked me enough for that at least At times I found the historical aspects fascinating, at other times I found that the general mumble of This was a really hard book to read not least because the speech was never marked so the book was pretty much all over the place I get that th...Police procedural set in Kenya Quite unique in that this detective Mollel is a former Masai warrior Interesting, but it was missing something for me Maybe it s because, despite the fact that he s a dad to Adam, he appears to be really lonely, Molel s wife was killed in the American Embassy bombing some years earlier The protagonist was likeable, and very much a good cop, though his parenting skills left much to be desired In this debut novel, he puts family and his job on the line, inv Police procedural set in Kenya Quite uni...Ambientato in una Nairobi pi divisa e tribale che mai, questo romanzo ha come protagonista un poliziotto di etnia Masai Un eroe, ma anche un uomo fragile e molto umano, alle prese con l assassinio di una prost...Police procedural detective novels are ten a penny these days, many of them formulaic and rather predictable in terms of character and plot putting aside the masters of the genre, that is Fortunately, Richard Crompton s novel sidesteps falling into the usual traps by virtue of the fact it is set in Nairobi, Kenya Anybody who has lived in Nairobi for any length of time, as I have, knows that the police force has limited access to modern policing techniques such as advanced forensics, vast com Police procedural detective novels are ten a penny these days, many of them formulaic and rather predictable in terms of character and plot putting aside the masters of the genre, that is Fortunately, Richard Crompton s novel sidesteps falling into the usual traps by virtue of the fact it is set in Nairobi, Kenya Anybody who has lived in Nairobi for any length of time, as I have, knows that the police force has limited access to modern policing techniques such as advanced forensics, vast computerized databases, and highly trained specialists Even the guns look so old and rickety you wonder if they would ever fire which is desirable since they are often casually wafted barrel first at yo...This is an intense book Set in Nairobi, Kenya, this tells of a detective who has not been active until a thief tries to rob him Mollel beats him and takes him into the station There the thief is released so as not to bring up their statistics However, the chief breaks the thief s nose when he asks for some compensation Meanwhile, the medical doctor brings Mollel in to see a female corpse who has been beaten but also genitally mutilated The chief gives Mollel the case His assistant is Kiun This is an intense book Set in Nairobi, Kenya, this tells of a detective who has not been active until a thief tries to rob him Mollel beats him and takes him into the station There the thief is released so as not to bring up their statistics However, the chief breaks the thief s nose when he asks for some compensation Meanwhile, the medical doctor brings Mollel in to see a female corpse who has been beaten but also genitally mutilated The chief gives Mollel the case His assistant is Kiunga, one of the most appealing of the complex characters the reader meets The two are of different tribes Mollel is Maasai and Kiunga is Kikuyu, two of the many tribes that populate the story As Mollel is observant and a fine detective, he has less people skills than Kiunga has, although each has a tragic ...This is the beginning to, what I hope, will become a series, featuring detective Mollel, a former Maasai warrior It is 2007 and the run up to elections in Nairobi, which will result in claims of vote rigging, protests and violence Already, the city is simmering with political, and tribal, allegiances When Mollel and Kiunga are ...A well written police procedural set in Nairobi in the run up to the 2007 presidential elections and during the subsequent riots The story takes on the complexity of Kenyan tribal history and loyalties that collide in ...

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15 June 2018

Richard Crompton