Set along the coast of Cape Town, this first rate crime novel introduces two private investigators who get involved in seemingly different cases. Jeffrey is hired by the wife of an adulterous financial consultant, while Vincent is contracted to find out who is stealing from an abalone farm. But the two cases converge, and the mastermind behind them both is a mesmerizing international gangster. Cape Greed highlights a fascinating locale for America’s crime fiction fans.

Cape Greed

Literature & Fiction

Nicol, Mike

Cole, Sam

Hichens, Joanne

Contemporary

Minotaur Books

Horseman

Random House Value Publishing

A description of the events surrounding the first democratic elections in South Africa. The author, a South African novelist and journalist, looks at the real lives that were touched by the major political and social events. Beginning with the first day of voting, glancing back to the violence at the end of 1993 and forward to the inauguration of President Mandela and beyond, the book then addresses the moral issues raised by these events: is it desirable, or possible, to forgive and forget?

The Waiting Country: A South African Witness (Gollancz Paperback)

History

Africa

Victor Gollancz

"A dark and terrifying novel presenting a mythical account of the development of evil through the history of Southern Africa."--Seattle Times. This ferocious new novel by one of South Africa's visionary writers is a post-colonial reimagining of the Book of Revelation--an unholy epic that reenvisions the catastrophic violence of European "civilization" as a hooded rider who spreads slaughter across the African continent--a work that is as unnerving as it is intellectually provocative. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Literary

KNOPF

An audacious departure for the internationally acclaimed South African novelist--a thriller with all the searing immediacy of today's headlines. Who was Christo Mercer, and why was he brutally stabbed to death in a remote Saharan town? For Robert Poley, an unhappy writer of political thril-lers, the welcome distraction posed by this question has become an obsession. With the mysterious delivery of a laptop computer and a cryptic E-mail message, he finds himself slowly entwined in the vagaries that constituted Mercer's life and death. An illegal-arms trader haunted by his nightmares, his past, and his clandestine involvement with a ruthless rebel-- and with Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great --Mercer lived on the grand stage of history, yet remained obscured by shadows until his seemingly fated demise. Now, piece by piece, in a complex web of social, political, personal, and fictional disclosures, the intricacies of Mercer's troubled psyche begin to reveal a pattern as corrupt as South Africa's in the aftermath of apartheid--years of judicial inquiry, the Truth Commission, and continued social unrest. With alchemical bravura, Mike Nicol turns history into fiction and fiction into history, bringing to allegorical life the haunting story of a murder emblematic of South Africa's recent past.

The Ibis Tapestry

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

"A dark and terrifying novel presenting a mythical account of the development of evil through the history of Southern Africa."--Seattle Times. This ferocious new novel by one of South Africa's visionary writers is a post-colonial reimagining of the Book of Revelation--an unholy epic that reenvisions the catastrophic violence of European "civilization" as a hooded rider who spreads slaughter across the African continent--a work that is as unnerving as it is intellectually provocative.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

The Powers That Be

BLOOMSBURY

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

The first novel from poet Mike Nicol, winner of the 1980 Ingrid Jonker Award for "Among the Souvenirs", is a story of myth and magic, fact and fiction, where sorcerers, angels and pirates conspire to bewitch the central figure, Captain Sylvester Nunes.

Atlantic Monthly Pr

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