Joseph Soyinka was a police officer in his native Nigeria, but a case gone wrong sent him and his son, Yome, fleeing to the Land of the Free for a fresh start.   Until he can get a job on the force, Joseph drives a cab and tries to keep his son out of trouble.  When his oldest friend, Cyrus, gets framed for a murder he didn’t commit, Joseph has to use his old skills and go undercover working for a drugs baron.  Soon he is in as much danger as when he lived in Lagos.

I was keen to see if this story delivered up the promise of a fast, punchy story and am glad to say that it did.  Habitues of this site know I am no fan of the long and the rambling, so 250 pages of solid action and plot has me cheering for more.  The author writes with conviction about a subject he has researched well, and the whole conjures up the mean streets of the South Bronx.  Joseph is a likeable protagonist, and the reader is sure to be in his corner from the first page.