Being a journalist in Nigeria is very risky business especially when you decide to go against the grain and print the truth. Jerry comes to see just how risky his job is when he is whisked away to jail after publishing a particularly scathing article. While in custody we see the prison system through his eyes and he takes us back as he feeds us with anecdotes of his former life.

This book focuses extensively on the Boko Haram insurgence in Nigeria. The structure, organization and ideology of the sect are also analysed, paying attention to internal splits within the group as well as external relations with the Nigerian state, and global jihadism, among others.