High above the ground. In the heart of danger. One man's fight to survive.

When Idowu Babalola, a veteran telecom mast rigger with eleven years of dangerous fieldwork behind him, accepts what should be a straightforward antenna replacement job in remote Oyo State, he has no idea the mission was engineered from the start. Armed men arrive in three trucks. His crew is taken.

Idowu is one hundred and twenty metres above the red laterite earth with no way down, a dying satellite phone, and the terrible certainty that nothing about this job was an accident.

Pulled into a secret intelligence compound by a shadowy retired brigadier, Idowu must use his engineering expertise to scale a 230-metre restricted communications tower, retrieve a sophisticated spy device, and uncover a conspiracy that reaches into the highest levels of Nigerian government — all while keeping himself and eleven other hostages alive.

The Rigger's Ransom is a high-octane Nigerian thriller that takes readers from the steel bones of telecom towers to the dark heart of Africa's intelligence underworld.

Rich in authentic Nigerian voice, technical detail, and relentless tension — this is the story of an ordinary man forced to become extraordinary.