Leye Adenle è uno scrittore nigeriano celebrato per i suoi racconti e le sue opere di flash fiction. La sua discendenza letteraria è notevole, proveniente da una famiglia ricca di talento nella scrittura, incluso suo nonno, Oba Adeleye Adenle I. Il lavoro di Adenle si addentra spesso nella vita nigeriana contemporanea, esplorando temi di migrazione, disparità sociale e la ricerca di identità in un mondo globalizzato. Il suo stile narrativo è caratterizzato da un ritmo avvincente e da un'esplorazione acuta della psicologia umana e delle relazioni complesse.
Easy Motion Tourist is a compelling crime novel set in contemporary Lagos. It features Guy Collins, a British hack who stumbles by chance into the murky underworld of the city. A modern thriller featuring a strong female protagonist, prepared to take on the Nigerian criminal world on her own.
What would happen if God went on holiday? Drawing on age-old African storytelling traditions, modern science-fiction and contemporary thriller writing, award-winning Nigerian author Leye Adenle (Easy Motion Tourist, When Trouble Sleeps) conjures up an entirely new way of seeing the world. The central character, Osaretin, thinks he is just a modest IT guy living in Lagos -- but it turns out he is much, much more than that ... A delightful, playful, thoughtful adventure in speculative fiction by one of Nigeria's most exciting new writers
The third book in the Amaka Thrillers series. Funke's assignation with her pastor lover is cut short when he is assassinated in their hotel room, as she hides naked and terrified inside a sofa. Desperate for help, she calls on Amaka, who has moved to London. One frantic phone call later and Amaka is headed back to Lagos, where she is thrust into a world of private jets, money-laundering and mega-churches. With the trustworthy Police Inspector Ibrahim out of the country, Amaka has to use all the resources at her disposal, with the hostile Inspector Musa breathing down her neck, and a ticking clock bearing down on her, as she works to rescue Funke and get to the bottom of this tangled web of missing money, dead pastors and corrupt government officials.