The Wrong Battle

When Naomi Birungi's phone rings at 3:11 in the morning in London, she already knows. Her brother Daniel, twenty-nine, an engineer who measured everything, is dead in Kampala after fourteen months of illness the family refused to name correctly. At the burial, a prophet accuses a seventy-one-year-old widow of witchcraft. Naomi finds the real answer in Daniel's graph-paper notebook: he had a treatable neurological condition, he knew it, and he had been secretly attending a Saturday teaching class led by Apostle Gladys Nakato, a former nurse whose life was shattered in 1986 when she fought the wrong battle and lost her son. Gladys's framework, built over twenty years from that loss, maps four terrains of human difficulty, each demanding a different response. Most confusion in spiritual warfare, she teaches, comes not from a lack of passion but from a lack of clarity. Alongside Jesse Okiror, a disgraced Atlanta preacher rebuilding himself on honesty, the three set out to write the framework into a book before the fear economy that silenced Daniel can silence them. The Wrong Battle is a novel about grief, discernment, and what it costs when sincere people fight in the wrong direction, and what becomes possible when they finally turn around.