The Illegal - Lawrence Hill
Category: Novel
Narrator: Gideon Emery
Tags: Novel, Contemporary, Adults, Literature
12h19m, Keita Ali is on the run., Desperate to flee Zantoroland, a mountainous island that produces the fastest marathoners in the world, Keita Ali signs on with notorious marathon agent Anton Hamm, who provides him with a chance to run the Boston marathon in return for a huge cut of the winning purse., But when Keita fails to place among the top finishers, rather than being sent back to his own country, he goes into hiding in Freedom Statea wealthy nation that has elected a government bent on deporting the refugees living within its borders in the community of AfricTown. Keita can only be safe if he keeps moving and eludes Hamm and the officials who would deport him to his own country, where he will face almost certain death., This is the new underground. A place where tens of thousands of people deemed to be illegal live below the radar of the police and government officials., As Keita surfaces from time to time to earn cash prizes by running local road races, he has to assess whethe
