The Barber of Jesus Street

In the centre of Lagos, Nigeria, there is a street where every one in three buildings is a church. In the centre of that street there is a barbershop where all the church leaders come for their haircuts. Pentecostal fades. Prophetic dreadlocks. The full range of holy vanity, served fresh every Saturday morning. At the centre of it all is Silas Edun. The Barber of Jesus Street. Silas is not a man of faith. He is a man of information. From his chair at No. 51 he has spent years watching, judging, and quietly making money from the most remarkable collection of fraudsters, believers, and self-declared Jesuses in the history of Lagos. He knows what everyone on this street is worth. He knows what they have done. He knows what they would pay to keep it quiet. He thought he had seen everything Jesus Street could throw at him. Then the most powerful man on the street died and left Silas holding the key to a room nobody else knew about. Some secrets are worth keeping. Some are worth selling. And some will change everything. The Barber of Jesus Street is a comic novella about faith, fraud, and what a man with no principles does when, for once in his life, he has a choice.