Publisher Description

From the author of Death in the New Republic comes another thrilling crime story featuring hard-bitten Johannesburg detective, Jerome Nossel.A distress call from Nossel's old friend, Alex, breaks into the detective's lazy Sunday afternoon. He is propelled into the glamour and sleaze of the city's underworld by a kidnap and a demand for an exotic ransom.Accompanied by Alex's captivating Nigerian wife Ngozi, they scour the fleshpots of Johannesburg, from its mega-rich northern suburbs to its sordid core in the dark city. They are pursued by the crazed steroidal enforcer who answers to only one man – Yuri Kramerov, the pimpmeister of Doornfontein.With time running out, and in their desperate quest to recover the ransom, encounters, characters and places create a Chandler-esque story, with Johannesburg as the main attraction. The Maori approached Alex, who Nossel feared might fall backwards into the freezing black pool, as patently terrified as he was.

Author Biography

David Dison is a former lawyer that specialized in defamation and media. A founder of the Weekly Mail, he has cowritten the leading manual for journalists operating under the censorship imposed by the Apartheid state. He is also the founder and deputy chairperson of African Media Entertainment and the author of numerous papers and articles on media and civil rights law.

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