Explore the Pan-African Revolution Conspiracy Thriller by M.H. Appleton
M.H. Appleton is a dedicated author whose literary journey is defined by a profound commitment to accuracy and authenticity.
Through high-end storytelling, he seeks to bridge the gap between cultural heritage and contemporary narrative, ensuring that African stories are told with the depth and respect they deserve.
His mission is to provide a platform for positive representation that honours the complexity of the African experience.
Author of Pan-African Fiction
The Hand of Menes
A centuries-old secret organization. A continent on the edge of revolution. And a girl who was never supposed to survive long enough to matter.
Oya was eight years old when three men left her for dead in a New York alley. Nine years later, she is one of THOM's deadliest soldiers, and the men who attacked her are dead by her hand. But her unsanctioned killings have drawn the attention of the FBI's sharpest investigator and triggered a kill order from the very organization that raised her.
Half a world away, Shango Badawi, an Ethiopian-born British PhD student, watches his mother shot dead at a protest rally in Addis Ababa. Imprisoned and tortured at the Alekese Correctional Facility, he discovers that his mother was a member of The Hand of Menes, and that she engineered his capture to deliver him a memory stick containing proof that the US government conspired to poison Tigray's farmland and seize four billion tonnes of shale oil.
When Oya and Shango's paths collide, two people shaped entirely by loss find themselves at the center of something neither chose: a revolution that could redraw the map of Africa or destroy everything they have left.
The Hand of Menes is a Pan-African thriller about survival, vengeance, and the cost of liberation, driven by the Swahili creed that a people who once ruled must never be ruled.
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