Book: Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 240 pages | ISBN 9780141186900 | 01 Nov 2001 | Penguin Classic
After a long silence Achebe published in 1987 what many see as his greatest work - an acrid, frightening look at oil-boom Nigeria, a world of robberies, road blocks and intimidation in which those who are meant to be protecting a country's citizens are in reality supervising the looting.