Two Hangmen, One Scaffold Book II: In The Hangman�s Shadow

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BOOK II: In the hangman’s shadow BOOK II: in the hangman’s shadow Basil Diki is traditionally a polemic dramatist and a stage director. He is the author of SHROUDED BLESSINGS, and THE LORD OF ANOMY, both published by Langaa. He also wrote THE TRIBE OF GRAVES, published elsewhere, all plays. TWO HANGMEN, ONE SCAFFOLD, written with sagacity in two parts; BOOK I: BAITING THE HANGMAn and BOOK II: IN THE HANGMAN’S SHADOW, is his debut novel. The writer won several awards for his plays and productions, notably Special Mention, Poetry and Drama, under the 2001 Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association Writing and Publishing Awards and the 2004 Best Play and Production Award under the Zimbabwe Invitational OneActFestivalhostedbyCampbell Theatre. Kadoma is Basil Diki’s hometown, but the writer now lives in Harare with his three children and entrepreneurial wife, Joleen. Despite being a boundless writer, demonology and comparative religious studies remain his pastime. When a correlation emerges between a prophecy and a police investigation, and a kidnapper maintains his presence at a crime scene, a woman dreads the passage of time. She cannot understand why a man set an innocent teenager on fire and kidnapped her son. The kidnapped boy’s father knows when two warring hangmen stand on the same scaffold, one must bow to the other or die. Into the fray comes a game ranger, an ex-decathlete expert at tracking maneating crocodiles. However, a Senator twice his age counting her fertility days desperately wants him in bed. She isn’t aware her sweetheart is in the belly of a world no criminologist can understand. As mayhem takes centre-stage in a community suffering the brunt of a veiled matrix of calamities, is the ranger further bait, a weapon or a sacrificial ram between crouching outlaws? or he risks total ruin. Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group P.O. Box 902 Mankon Bamenda North West Region Cameroon ...