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419 : a novel / Will Ferguson.

Ferguson, Will (author.).

Summary:

Step into the world's most insidious Internet scam that begins with a single email: "Dear Sir, I am the son of an exiled Nigerian diplomat, and I need your help...". When Laura's father gets caught up in one such swindle and pays with his life, she is forced to leave the comfort of North America to make a journey deep into the dangerous back streets and alleyways of the Lagos underworld to confront her father's killer. A story of love in a time of darkness, of one woman's search for redemption, and of a young boy who will triumph above it all.

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  • ISBN: 9780670064717 (hc.)
  • ISBN: 0670064718 (hc.)
  • Physical Description: 399 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto : Viking, 2012.

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Canadian author.

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Subject: Life change events > Fiction
Internet fraud > Fiction.
Swindlers and swindling > Fiction
Fathers and daughters > Fiction
Crime > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Fiction.
Electronic mail messages > Fiction
Cartels > Nigeria > Lagos > Fiction.
Computer crimes > Fiction
Internet > Moral and ethical aspects > Fiction.
Fathers > Death > Fiction.
Americans > Nigeria > Fiction.
Lagos (Nigeria) > Fiction.
Nigeria > Fiction
Authors, Canadian
Genre: Suspense fiction.

Available copies

  • 35 of 36 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 36 total copies.
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  • Random House, Inc.
    From internationally bestselling travel writer Will Ferguson, author of Happiness™ and Spanish Fly, comes a novel both epic in its sweep and intimate in its portrayal of human endurance.

    A car tumbles through darkness down a snowy ravine.

    A woman without a name walks out of a dust storm in sub-Saharan Africa.

    And in the seething heat of Lagos City, a criminal cartel scours the Internet, looking for victims.

    Lives intersect. Worlds collide. And it all begins with a single email: “Dear Sir, I am the daughter of a Nigerian diplomat, and I need your help…”

    Will Ferguson takes readers deep into the labyrinth of lies that is “419,” the world’s most insidious Internet scam.

    When Laura Curtis, a lonely editor in a cold northern city, discovers that her father has died because of one such swindle, she sets out to track down—and corner—her father’s killer. It is a dangerous game she’s playing, however, and the stakes are higher than she can ever imagine.

    Woven into Laura’s journey is a mysterious woman from the African Sahel with scars etched into her skin and a young man who finds himself caught up in a web of violence and deceit.

    And running through it, a dying father’s final words: “You, I love.”

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