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 FBI's sharpest investigator and triggered a kill order from the very organization that raised her.

Half a world away, Shango Badawi, an Ethiopian-raised 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 founding 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 inside Alekese's sewage tunnels, 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 ruled must never be ruled.