Where Eagles Crawl and Men Fly

Welcome to Warri, Wadad, where "all God's children" got real wings and the devil's earthy brood brandish shotguns. But it's hard to tell the good from the bad in this marvellous mash-up of Action and Fantasy. In Warri, crime is as much entertainment as it is a lucrative necessity. Even bums prosper-through-violence. They let frustrated execs batter them--just "for a buck." In this ingeniously imaginative novel, ghetto dwellers and high-flyers spread their wings only to see them clipped. But, like Lucifer expelled from Heaven, their flaming downfalls are hypnotically radiant.

Can a bad man go good? Where Eagles Crawl and Men Fly is a blend of Fantasy and Action that follows the life of Badroy Anthony Taylor, a career criminal looking to reinvent himself in a new place. Unfortunately, the home he has chosen for himself is also going through the painful process of starting over and, good intentions aside, it isn't long before Badroy gets entangled in the mix. Welcome to Warri, Wadad, where "all God's children" got real wings and the devil's earthy brood brandish shotguns. But it's hard to tell the good from the bad in this marvellous mash-up of Action and Fantasy. In Warri, crime is as much entertainment as it is a lucrative necessity. Even bums prosper-through-violence. They let frustrated execs batter them--just "for a buck." In this ingeniously imaginative novel, ghetto dwellers and high-flyers spread their wings only to see them clipped. But, like Lucifer expelled from Heaven, their flaming downfalls are hypnotically radiant.

Jelani "J Wyze" Nias was born on the island of Antigua in 1977, has lived in Bermuda and now resides in Toronto, Canada. He has been writing professionally for 16 years. In 2013, his short stories were featured in two anthologies "In The Black: New African Canadian Literature" and "So The Nailhead Bend, So The Story End" an Anthology of Antiguan and Barbudan Writing". An accomplished spoken word artist, his poetry can be found in "Word Up: Spoken Words In Print" and on EMI Canada's companion audio compilation also entitled "Word Up". His articles have been published by the Toronto Star and included in Canadian civics high school texts. He has also had various poems incorporated into syllabi for the University of Alberta's English courses. "Where Eagles Crawl and Men Fly" is his first novel.