Five Hours to Die

By Daniel Olas

...The time ticks away and death hovers around, ready to strike in five hours time. But before zero hour, the poor got rich and the rich turned poor... But then, death decided to tarry but the victim is dead already, what killed him? Find out in this Inspiring thriller

• Language: English
• Publisher: Daniel Olas
• Release date: May 24, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310445255

Daniel Olas

A soul writer writing from the depth of my soul... Writes on diverse elements of life!!!

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5 Hours To Die

Daniel Olas

Copyright 2015 Daniel Olas

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter One

Chapter Two

04:59mins

04:35mins

04:00mins

Chapter Three

02:00mins (In Nigeria)

01:20mins

01:05mins

00:45mins

00:25mins

00:05mins

00:00mins (Zero Hour)

Epilogue

An action Thriller by This Author

…the death that kills men hovers around me and I can smell its scent all over me. It aura alone snuffs life out of every man’s soul. With death I now walk hand in hand and he said to me; Aint you afraid of me? And I answered; Why should I? I’m only afraid of you when I haven’t seen you but now… you are my close friend!!!

INTRODUCTION

I just want to end my life… I’m tired of living! Mr Thomas had told me one day but I never took him serious. I had taken his words to be the common words of the wretched that finds it difficult to survive daily and passes the night under bridges and sheds. Mr Thomas works in a factory where I also work. It’s a soap producing factory that has managed to ward off competitions in that area. In short, it’s the only business setting in the whole of Magbon—a very remote area in Lagos, Nigeria. We mixed the chemical while some other categories of staffs take the mixed chemical to where its further processed… from there, we don’t know what happens again; we only know that after some hours, we see soaps already packed and ready for delivery.

I wasn’t too wrong about my presumptions. Mr Thomas has been working in this factory for eight unfruitful years. According to his story, he joined this factory as a manager and for the next two years, the factory managed to produce five hundred soaps due to some financial constraints—too bad! The management accused him of embezzling the factory’s money and was given the choice of either going to jail or staying back here in the company for another seven years as a labourer staff and on a half salary—that’s worst than jail. The choice he chose kept him here. With a wife and three grown children, Mr Thomas last resort is to commit suicide and die. But death isn’t sweet… it’s easy to commit suicide with your mouth than your hands… I guess Mr Thomas has not been finding it easy to do this—he could only say this with his mouth; but that’s not enough to die.

The suffering he has been through in this factory for the last five years should be equal to the seven years he would have spent in jail. I heard that most often, for five months, his salary would be withheld just for no reason. While his colleagues smile home after the month, he cries home. I was so full of pity for this man but my own case is worse. I did my findings if truly Mr Thomas was responsible for the financial breakdown of the factory and 95 percent of my result was negative. He was implicated. The real embezzler of the money was the account manager—a friend to the CEO of the factory. So, he was actually suffering for the sins of another person. Hope he gets vindicated one of these days.

Stories like this are common. Go around the town and the cities and you will see people been