I stumbled on the book as I was walking in the unforgiving streets of Nairobi one evening heading home. The only thing that amused me to a stop was the fact that the book was Kenyan history book, it is not an everyday site to see a not-so-new but new book written by a Kenyan and being sold at a throw away price, so I immediately bagged it.
The less than 200-page book was an easy read and I would complete it, or so I thought but the book took me a couple of months to finish, in between other books. The story was simple written in comprehensible English with a few new words here and there.
The point, I reckon was that Mau Mau did exist and their ties and deep rooted and penetrate even the highest of offices. The crime fictional story that revolved around an enraged and ruthless young man Ture whose seek for revenge of his mother’s death gets entangled in the unshaken highly secret and connected group-The Inheritors.
Although, the writer Gachoka Mwangi an advocate of the High Court, style of writing seemed in a rush to develop characters’ back story and their strengths and weakness was just sprang on us last minute when they were needed. A few grammatical errors and an instance of confusion of characters may deter you away from the book. It is a good book for students starting out to read. It supports the existence of the political vigilante group and acknowledges our freedom fighters who struggled to fight against the colonial rule in Kenya pre-independence.