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Within The Cracks
Paperback
Series: The Provenance Wars, Book 1
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
An ordinary school excursion. A museum under siege. A history that refuses to remain behind glass.
When PhD researcher Chinedu Okafor visits the National Museum in Lagos to study three unusual cultural objects, he expects another quiet day among catalogues, guarded displays and unanswered academic questions.
Then the doors lock.
Children, teachers, museum workers and visitors become trapped inside as a disciplined masked group takes control of the building. But the attackers are not behaving like ordinary thieves. They make no demands for money. Their weapons may not be what they appear to be. And while the police concentrate on the museum's entrance, something far more carefully planned is unfolding beneath it.
As fear spreads and trust begins to fracture, Chinedu discovers that his research may have placed him at the centre of the operation. The mask, staff and beads are more than museum pieces; and someone inside knows exactly why they matter.
Set in Lagos and rooted in Africa's contested cultural heritage, Within the Cracks is a tense museum-heist thriller about memory, identity, stolen history and the dangerous line between recovering the past and weaponising it.
Some objects are displayed. Others are waiting.
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