In a strategic twist in Nigerian politics, Field Marshal Sanobaeze plotted and Zulaihat Abdulhamid emerges as the country's first President. Her Deputy Jamoh Abuja traverses the whole nation in cognito and records its myriad problems yet the two instead of relieving the country of its predicament falter for which reason the strongman stages a comeback in a bloodless coup to move the country to the upper level. Written as the Nigerian novel, The Upper Level examines Nigeria's gnawing problems of corruption and ethnicity more thoroughly than any other recent novel focused on the same theme.