May Day, (Paperback)

<p>They came for the children on a Tuesday.</p><p><b>Biafra, 1968.</b></p><p>A republic is collapsing under siege. Sixty thousand federal troops close in. A brutal blockade turns away even powdered milk for starving infants. And deep behind enemy lines, in a place known only as the <i>House of Children</i>, 312 Igbo children are being processed for export-cataloged, stripped of identity, and funneled toward a fate far darker than adoption.</p><p>Fifteen men cross into hostile territory to stop it.</p><p>A reluctant tutor, driven by the desperate need to find milk for his newborn twins.<br>A musician who refuses to lay down his guitar-because to abandon it is to lose the very rhythm of his soul.<br>A seventeen-year-old soldier who counts everything: the dead, the days, the inches between survival and annihilation.</p><p>They are all that stands between life and disappearance.</p><p>They are joined by others who know the cost of this war too well: <br>A midwife who has risked the journey seven times, carrying life in and hope out.<br>A hunter who reads the forest like a living map beneath his feet.<br>A downed enemy pilot who spent forty-seven days listening-counting children through a wall.</p><p>The mission is impossible.</p><p><b>Eleven minutes to breach the compound.</b><br><b>Twenty minutes to move 312 children onto a stolen C-130.</b></p><p>One guitar must guide them across a darkened runway.<br>One gold pocket watch must buy the only thing left to spend-time.</p><p><i>MAY DAY</i> is a powerful literary war novel in the tradition of <i>Half of a Yellow Sun</i> and <i>The Pianist</i>-a story of courage under impossible odds, of identity and sacrifice, and of the fragile mathematics that separates rescue from ruin.</p><p>This is not just a story about war.<br>It is a story about what remains when everything else is taken.</p><p><b>The string did not break.<br>The song does not end.</b></p><p>"The mathematics of annihilation had no variable for courage."</p><p>"You name your children for what you refuse to surrender."</p><p>"A man who abandons his instrument abandons the frequency at which his soul vibrates."</p><p></p>

• May Day, (Paperback)
• Author: Independently Published
• ISBN: 9798258365644
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-04-21
• Page Count: 264