Survival of the Beautiful

About the Book

Ace investigative reporter, Peter Abel, goes for a celebration drink after a world exclusive scoop and ends up sharing the night with a whore. In return for his kindness, Kike gives him a parting note of her late boyfriend.

Abel follows up to the origin of the note. Kike, who has taken an oath of secrecy to leave the village, protests “ it is an uncivilised culture.”

Abel arrives the village hidden behind some mountains to a warm welcome and offer of feminine comfort. He declines to eat for three days, saving himself from the charm that would have entranced him like the 10 zombies he finds there.

The village’s culture stuns him, especially the annual festival during which the King inspects a line of beauty (beautiful spinsters lined up for inspection) to choose a wife. Lesser suitors ballot by blowing feathers at the ladies.

Unlucky spinsters who do not get the feather to fall on them, are kept for Biology Professor Price who collects them in a helicopter they call “the big bird no man born of a woman should see”.

Price, who had earlier discovered the remote village had brainwashed the king and his people and started breeding only beautiful women and men through an igneous elimination of ugly ones and the grooming of the beautiful.

Abel encounters Professor Price, and smuggles himself out of the village on his helicopter.

Abel plunges from the helicopter to near death on the outskirts of another village, where a peasant farmer, who almost buries him, saves his life. Back in the city, Abel repels attacks from Price’s men and plots the biggest expose of all.

About the Author

Bisi is the Head of Communications and Media of Shell Nigeria. A graduate of economics and psychology, he started writing during the 12 years he taught in secondary schools. Worried that he was writing faster than he was being published, he switched to journalism out of the joy of seeing his by-lines daily. He became a very popular business reporter and later editor, who was head -hunted for oil and gas industry in Nigeria. The acceptance of his first novel, THE BLACK GODFATHER, has spurred him on into regular writing, despite the demands of his job. He has so far written four novels: Survival of the Beautiful; Love Wars; Black Godfather; and Sacred Seduction. Bisi has also written an economics textbook and 11 plays.