Oil Drilling Off The West African Coast

It's no secret that oil companies operating off the African Coast have had a field day generating significant revenues there. The major cost, other than direct cost of drilling, has been the cost to keep the corrupt ruling government officials on-shore fat and happy while the native populations gain little or no benefit from the rape of their natural resources.

It is very difficult to achieve any changes in this deplorable situation because western governments support the corrupt on-shore regimes. In The Bonus, the fictional west African country, Kanbia, tries to break free of this dilemma by voting in a new president in a democratic election process. But the largest oil company operating in its territorial waters devises a plan to undermine the program on which the new president was swept into office.

The question is what will happen to Tim Farley when he has to juggle the forces of corporate oil company power, ruthless middle eastern bankers, desperate hit men and even the powers of animistic African religious beliefs in order to get his deal done.

West African spirit house.