BETRAYAL AMONGST THE LIVING

They thought they could bury the truth. They forgot the soil remembers everything. When Jabali Mwakio returns to his childhood village of Nyanduma, he expects a quiet homecoming. Instead, he finds a ghost town. Ancestral graves have been uprooted, family farms are enclosed by barbed wire, and the community has been silenced by fear. The land hasn't just been sold—it has been stolen by the very leaders sworn to protect it.

In the Tumaini Republic, power is bought with silence, and asking questions is a death sentence. But Jabali refuses to look away. Driven by the memory of his mother and the despair of his people, he joins forces with a fearless investigative journalist, a fiery student revolutionary, and an elderly widow who refuses to bow to the bulldozers.

Together, they unearth a devastating conspiracy of blood, forged signatures, and forgotten massacres that leads straight to the highest offices of the State House. But how do you fight a corrupt regime that owns the law, the land, and the guns?

A masterful and pulse-pounding political thriller by Lincoln Butobela, Betrayal Amongst the Living is a story of stolen heritage and unyielding courage. It is a mirror held to modern corruption—and a rallying cry for the forgotten to rise from the dust.