Review of Quest: Finding Freddie

[kingsley Onyenwe]

[Following is a volunteer review of "Quest: Finding Freddie" by Thomas Richard Spradlin.]

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5 out of 5 stars

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Mr. Frederick Nachman is the President and Chief Executive Officer of NITC (Nachman International Trading Corporation). On August 14, 1976, while on a business trip to Nigeria with the hopes of winning a contract to supply telecommunication equipment to the Nigerian government, he went missing. Mrs. Nachman contracted Richard, a partner in the Clifford law firm and a former army colonel, and entrusted him with the responsibility of traveling to Nigeria and bringing Mr. Nachman back to the U.S., either dead or alive. Mrs. Nachman was ready to do whatever it took to bring her husband home. With arrangements and plans made, Richard traveled to Nigeria, and the rest of the book details the story of how he was able to pull through this arduous and risky task.

The author portrayed Nigeria as a place you can get almost anything done by paying your way through. In this book, Richard tells the story of his personal encounter in Nigeria around 1976, when the political atmosphere was shaking and coups were in constant succession. I like this book’s cover; it shows a map of Africa with the search radius zoomed into Nigeria. This design gives the reader the idea that the inquiry in this book is centered on Africa and Nigeria, to be precise.

The story in this book opened my eyes to a lot about Nigeria in the 1970s. For example, I learned about Kuramo Beach, the origin of the popular Ikoyi club, where Achebe took out the title of his popular book, ‘Things Fall Apart’ from, the point of no return in Badagary, from where slaves are transported to America, etc.

The character development in this book was carefully crafted, and the plot left no desired questions as I turned the last page. The drawbacks are the fact that this book gave the notion that one can always buy their way through if they are financially buoyant enough, and I also came across a few editing errors, and as such, I can say the editors were professional with their editing. ‘Quest: Finding Freddie’ by Thomas Richard Spradlin gets a rating of five out of five stars from me, and I recommend it to investigators and historians.

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