“He's played the lead in every life but his own.”
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For fifteen years, Emeka has understudied the same leading man on the same Lagos stage, ready every night to become someone else's career. When the lead finally falls ill on opening night of the role of a lifetime, Emeka gets one performance to find out what was actually his all along.
Tunde usually writes thrillers, but he understands suspense as a structure, not a genre — and a man waiting fifteen years for one night turns out to be just as tense as a blackout full of strangers.
— Wale Ogundipe, Senior Editor
Crime and suspense set in cities that never quite sleep.
View author page →He had been ready for this exact night for fifteen years, which was either the best preparation an actor could ask for or proof that nothing in his own life had ever been quite ready to start.
The stage manager said the word 'go' the way you'd say it to someone falling, not someone flying, and Emeka understood, walking out, that both might be true at once.
The first chapter ends here.
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