Esperance, Adam Oyebanji
Esperance, Adam Oyebanji
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Esperance

Author: Adam Oyebanji

Narrator: Délé Ogundiran

Unabridged: 11 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/20/2025


Synopsis

A whip-smart thriller in the vein of Blake Crouch, Andy Weir, and Neal Stephenson, Esperance plumbs the depths of a seemingly impossible crime rooted in racism, intergenerational trauma, and an inhuman concept of justiceDetective Ethan Krol is on the twentieth floor of a Chicago apartment building. A father and son have been found dead—their lungs full of seawater hundreds of miles from the ocean.Abidemi Eniola has arrived in Bristol, England. She claims to be Nigerian, but her accent is wrong and she can do remarkable things with technology, things that Abi’s new friend, Hollie Rogers, has never seen before. Abi is in possession of a number of heirlooms that need to be returned to their rightful owners and Hollie is more than happy to go along for the ride.But neither Abidemi Eniola nor her heirlooms are quite what they seem. Abidemi is a target of Ethan Krol’s investigations and Hollie’s life is about to become far more uncomfortable than she bargained for. In a clash of cultures, and histories and different ideas about right and wrong, Hollie’s safety is very much at risk. Someone’s justice will have to give way, and the consequences will be deadly.

About Adam Oyebanji

Adam Oyebanji is the author of A Quiet Teacher. Born in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, he is a graduate of Birmingham University and Harvard Law School. When he’s not out among the stars, he works in the field of counter-terrorist financing: helping banks choke off the money supply that builds weapons of mass destruction, narcotics empires, and human trafficking networks. He currently lives in Pittsburgh.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lukasz on February 26, 2025

Esperance hooked me from page one and didn’t let go. I mean, how could it? It opens with an impossible murder - a father and son drown in seawater inside their 20th-floor Chicago apartment (with no water tank around, floors dry, and nail scratches on the ceiling). A dead barracuda is just lying ther......more

Goodreads review by Zana on March 31, 2025

Sci-fi thrillers are right up my alley, but this was just okay. As much as I loved the focus on racism and history, it wasn't enough to carry the story. The novel would be entertaining as a movie or graphic novel, but as a novel, it wasn't really all that exciting until the last 20-25% when the clim......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on June 02, 2025

Oooh this was a wild ride! It is brutal yet emotional, heartbreaking yet humorous, exciting yet still with well developed characters. Really, I don't think I can find a complaint for Esperance! Without giving too much away (since much of the fun is because the reader is trying to figure out the situ......more

Goodreads review by Jamedi on June 06, 2025

Esperance is a speculative fiction novel which blends together police procedural, sci-fi and alt-history, written by Adam Oyebanji, and published by DAW Books. An impossible murder kickstarts a propulsive novel that doesn't explain much, letting the reader tie the knots between the two POVs, trustin......more

Goodreads review by Anne on April 01, 2025

This is a really odd book that I had trouble getting into as I usually don't enjoy fantasy. But once I got the gist of it, I was hooked and couldn't read fast enough! Ethan is investigating three dead bodies that have drowned in salt water in their apartment. There's no fish tank in sight and there......more