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Ferguson, Will.
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Crime -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Fiction.
Cartels -- Nigeria -- Lagos -- Fiction.
Americans -- Nigeria -- Fiction.
Computer crimes -- Fiction.
Internet -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
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Ferguson, Will.
Crime -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Fiction.
Cartels -- Nigeria -- Lagos -- Fiction.
Americans -- Nigeria -- Fiction.
Computer crimes -- Fiction.
Internet -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
Giller Prize.
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419
: a
novel
/ Will Ferguson.
by
Ferguson, Will.
Penguin Group (Canada), c2012.
Call #:
FICTION FER
Subjects
Crime -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Fiction.
Cartels -- Nigeria -- Lagos -- Fiction.
Americans -- Nigeria -- Fiction.
Computer crimes -- Fiction.
Internet -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
Giller Prize.
ISBN:
9780670064717
Alternate title:
Four hundred and nineteen
Four one nine
Four nineteen
Description:
399 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"A car tumbles down a snowy ravine. Accident or suicide? On the other side of the world, a young woman walks out of a sandstorm in sub-Saharan Africa. In the labyrinth of the Niger Delta, a young boy learns to survive by navigating through the gas flares and oil spills of a ruined landscape. In the seething heat of Lagos City, a criminal cartel scours the internet looking for victims. Lives intersect, worlds collide, a family falls apart. And it all begins with a single email: "Dear Sir, I am the son of an exiled Nigerian diplomat, and I need your help ..."
419
takes readers behind the scene of the world's most insidious internet scam. 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. What she finds there will change her life forever..."--Publisher.
Awards:
Winner of the Giller Prize, 2012.
Genre:
Psychological thriller.
Suspense fiction.
Literary fiction.
Canadian fiction.
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