chapter 37
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Chapter 37: The Confession

​The Holy Ghost Cathedral in Enugu was packed. The air was thick with the smell of incense and the sound of a hundred voices singing in harmony. At the altar, a man in a spotless white robe knelt before the congregation. This was Father Matthew, the man the city knew as a saintly servant of the poor.

​But to me, he was just Matthew the Driver. The man who checked his watch in 1998 and signaled the killers that the back door was unlocked.

​"Emeka, the security here isn
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