Listen to author Hannah Mary McKinnon read the description and opening pages of TRUTH IS A FLIGHTLESS BIRD by Akbar Hussain, which is available now!

About TRUTH IS A FLIGHTLESS BIRD: Nice, an eccentric UN worker, involved in the dangerous world of her drug trafficking boyfriend in Mogadishu, is kidnapped by Hinga, a corrupt police officer working for drug lords, and Ciru, a complicated woman with a tragic past of her own. Her old flame Duncan, a white American pastor, in an attempt to save her is uprooted from his expat middle-class bubble and forced to navigate the moral complexities of the Nairobi underground fraught with characters fighting for survival. Set against the impending arrival of President Obama to Kenya, Truth is a Flightless Bird, a crime novel, is an exploration of colonialism and current imperial and capitalist structures that create and perpetuate violence.

About the author: Akbar Hussain is the author of "Truth is a Flightless Bird", a Kenya-based novel, which has been optioned for an eight-part television miniseries. Aki is also a successful entrepreneur, co-founding a financial technology start-up while living in Nairobi. He has common and civil law degrees from McGill University. When not writing fiction or running the fintech, Aki can be found walking his Labrador Lucy, with his partner and their three children.

Connect with Aki:

Instagram: www.instagram.com/akithewriter

Twitter: www.twitter.com/Akidovic

Website: www.Akbarhussain.net

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