Chapter 12. The Lagos Creeper Box
131ah as “Charlos”
Nigeria was a dump. Charlos now understood why nobody wanted to work there. It's Africa like you see it on CNN. And yet this was the country that had the largest oil reserve on the continent. Military rule for the past 30 years ensured that the money ended up mostly in some dictator's pocket and not on the streets where it belonged…
When Charlos got off the plane it was 00 h30. The air was still sticky and hot, but unlike Miami, it smelled of rotten food. Charlos was used to it—it's the same smell you find in tropical regions like Kuala Lumpur, Brazil, and Jakarta. He has been to many such places, usually to perform the same type of function he was contracted to do here. He was tired, tired to ...