About the Author

AKINTUNDE AKINKUNMI was born and brought up in Ibadan, Nigeria. He attended medical school at the country's premier university-the University of Ibadan, followed by a stint of service with the Brigade of Guards of the Nigerian Army Thereafter he relocated to the United Kingdom in the late 1980s, and over the next twenty-five years combined service in the British Army Reserve with postgraduate training as a forensic psychiatrist, while earning a law degree along the way. He is the proud father of four daughters, to whom this first book of his is dedicated with great affection. He hopes the work of fiction will be the start of his fourth career-as a writer, as his medical, military, and legal careers gradually wind down. He is currently at work on his second book-Hubris: A Brief Political History of the Nigerian Army drawing on his personal experience of service with the military establishment and from a painstaking private research work he has engaged in over several years on the subject matter.