Summary

Chapter 27

Richard is featured in this chapter. He has a terrible fright when Harrison enters the room covered in what looks like blood. As it turns out, it is just beet juice that Harrison smeared on himself so that he could leave his village to come to Richard's home. He explains, as he cleans himself up, that only the wounded, women and children, were being let out of the village. Richard has had to leave his home in the city and is holed up with Kainene in Port Harcourt. He had asked Harrison to go back into the city to retrieve a few items. He asks about his manuscript, but Harrison tells him that he couldn't safely get it out, so he buried it in the backyard.

Richard is visited by Madu who asks him to write for the Propaganda Directorate...