419, Will Ferguson
419, Will Ferguson
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419

Author: Will Ferguson

Narrator: Pete Bradbury

Unabridged: 13 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/08/2013


Synopsis

Will Ferguson takes readers deep into the labyrinth of lies that is " 419," winner of the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize. A car tumbles through darkness down a snowy ravine. A woman without a name walks out of a dust storm in sub-Saharan Africa. And in the seething heat of Lagos City, a criminal cartel scours the Internet, looking for victims. Lives intersect. Worlds collide. And it all begins with a single email: " Dear Sir, I am the daughter of a Nigerian diplomat, and I need your help" When Laura Curtis, a lonely editor in a cold northern city, discovers that her father has died because of one such swindle, she sets out to track down-- and corner-- her father' s killer. It is a dangerous game she' s playing, however, and the stakes are higher than she can ever imagine. Woven into Laura' s journey is a mysterious woman from the African Sahel with scars etched into her skin and a young man who finds himself caught up in a web of violence and deceit. And running through it, a dying father' s final words: " You, I love."

About Will Ferguson

Will Ferguson is the author of five novels, including 419, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. A three-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, he has been nominated for both a Commonwealth Prize and an International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His most recent novels, The Finder and The Shoe on the Roof, were instant national bestsellers. Will Ferguson lives in Calgary. Visit him at WillFerguson.ca.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jake

[Canadian Giller Prize Winner 2012]. Good concept – but a little too ‘concept’ (all the way to calling it ‘419’, which has a whiff of dystopian global SF about it at first). It’s rather let down by its character development and plot structure, which (I hate saying this) do feel ‘first novel’ and mea......more

Goodreads review by Paltia

Rather than letting down her long braid to be saved by a prince Rapunzel will tie the end to a post, lower herself down, cut her hair off and run free. Laura, the heroine of this fantastic story, not only reimagines the fairy tale she lives it. Ferguson explores the deeper thematic ideas about good,......more

Goodreads review by Shane

Canadian naiveté meets Nigerian artfulness in this tale about a real-world phenomenon known as the 419 scam that all of us who dabble in the internet are open to. Laura, a nondescript editor (who later surprises us when she rises to Herculean heights) is tracing the last months of her father’s life a......more