Television investigative reporter, KEN, a.k.a. “The Cat,” is on a treacherous warpath against corruption in high places. When his employer’s TV station is bombed, no one will hire him. Desperate for survival, Ken accepts an invitation from two people—MAXX, his last employer and a former drug lord, and NICK, an American entrepreneur. Ken’s task is to recruit corrupt politicians who will embark on costly internationally funded infrastructure projects which will be exchanged for land and preferential treatment in business. With a huge social media following, Ken becomes the nation’s top social influencer who must incessantly unnerve the politically powerful. Will Ken make the right choices about his future?
Mild-mannered MELVIN JACKSON has a problem—the workplace bully. Shawn is everything MELVIN wants to be—popular, confident and on the fast-track to promotion. However, he is also a tightly wound, obnoxious bully who treats Melvin as his personal errand boy to buy sandwiches and lottery tickets.
After Melvin buys the winning ticket, and the countdown to the biggest lottery prize in U.S.’s history begins, he chooses a dangerous path that will teach Shawn a lesson by turning him into a timebomb. Like a lottery, Melvin is playing a game of chance, but this time, he risks everything. Can he save his job, his relationship with his fiancé, and even his own life from the wrath of Shawn’s explosive fury?
This, my first novel, is a story about what happens when you stumble upon evidence that implicates fellow corporate executives in corrupt practices, and in your quest to fight the vice, you face the obstacles of ethnicity and trade unionism, backed by bad governance from the highest office in the land.
ALFRED and LEWIS are senior executives at an African state-owned broadcasting corporation. They produce evidence against corrupt fellow executives, but most of whom belong to the state president’s ethnic group. In the silent war that ensues, the President, the First Lady, the Vice President, some cabinet Ministers and backbenchers, the intelligence service, the company’s board of directors, the corporation’s CEO, and some of the corporation’s clients, side with the villain, SPADE, the VP of Operations and famous TV personality. Unionized workers go on a pro-Spade strike. Undaunted, Alfred and Lewis threaten to spill the beans. So, Spade must resign his job, but only after being promised a diplomatic appointment.
When Alfred succeeds Spade as VP of Operations, he strives to clean the slate. But without the CEO’s support, and in an environment where some company employees are on State House payroll, will Alfred succumb to the demands of ruling party politicians for the control of the newsroom diary? Will the corruption ever stop? Will Lewis’s contract of service be renewed? Tipped about a danger to his life, Alfred and family must leave for the U.S.
From the President’s office to the courtrooms and the boardroom, from TV studios to the cemeteries, the scenic beauty of Cape Town and the wilderness of Kenya, the book tells the story of the African journalist today. Although a work of fiction, the story is inspired by trues events.
PATRICK keeps a big secret – and only one other person is privy to it. But now, the innocent must suffer the fallout.
Patrick and Denise seem to be a picture-perfect couple. But Patrick has a dilemma – he keeps a secret he cannot share with anyone. What must he do to keep his gainful management job at a highly-politicized Zambian state radio and television agency? Is sharing the rest of his life with stunningly beautiful and cool-headed DENISE, the wonder woman who has been devoted to him since their university days, or with the children he loves so much—ALICE, the artistic seventeen-year-old daughter who looks up to her father to achieve her dream of becoming a tennis star like the Williams sisters or, like her father, become a television journalist; fourteen-year-old CHRIS, the enchanting son who needs his father’s endorsement to become a rapper; and seven-year-old JUNIOR, who thinks the word of Daddy—an option? While attending a workshop in Atlanta, Georgia, Patrick must choose between his family and facing the dire consequences of his own actions.
(written under the penname, Keith M. Noble)
What happens when you give a ride to a total stranger, and instead of buying you the gas he promised to buy, he turns your trip into a nightmare characterized by greed, pride, arrogance, deceit, horror, and death?
When ABEL receives a phone call from his cousin, KEN, telling him that an uncle has died, he and Ken plan to meet at a convenience store the next morning to travel the 550 miles to the funeral together. But just as Abel realizes that Ken is a “no-show,” a stranger opens his car door and plants himself in the passenger seat. It seems that, fate has dropped Mike right into Abel’s life, whether he likes it or not. But when Abel decides to give MIKE a ride (does he have a choice?) he has no idea that the stranger is about to turn the trip into a nightmare.
Will Abel escape his past and change his present?
A psychological thriller, Tombstone Blues shares the gripping tale of an unstable man’s convoluted journey of self-discovery as a road trip transforms itself into a haunting rollercoaster of horror and death.
