PARADISE GRIM: Power. Betrayal. And the Cost of Survival

In the oil-rich sub-Saharan African Republic of Nagami, corruption is tradition and justice is expendable. When American entrepreneur Jonathan Everest bankrolls a reformist presidential candidate in exchange for lucrative oil rights, he imagines himself as both kingmaker and visionary. The candidate wins. Jonathan rises. But the promise of change dies swiftly, and Jonathan's honeymoon curdles into nightmare.When the government sentences its fiercest critic to death, Jonathan faces a moral reckoning that threatens to destroy everything he has built. His decision sets off a chain of events that will test his conscience, his courage, and his will to survive.Paradise Grim is a taut, emotionally charged thriller that explores the price of complicity, the weight of redemption, and the thin line between power and ruin in a nation where paradise itself has become a battlefield.

Pagina's: 405, Paperback, Independently published