JOY CUT SHORT BUT DREAMS FULFILLED BY CHIKERE A. AGBO
The novel sets the scene with a ghastly motor accident at a police checkpoint where the almighty Andrew experiences first hand the notorious Nigerian police brutality. He is taught the lesson of his life and is pulverised both physically and mentally by corrupt policemen on duty for daring to question the roadblock set up on a highway. This proud and powerful man is broken down to his weakest state by a police force as brutal as the reigning military head of state of the time. Andrew who criss-crosses the length and breadth of Eastern Nigeria doing his logging business to make ends meet and take care of his wife, Betty and their children is broken, traumatised and hospitalised.
