Wake Up Dead: A Cape Town Thriller Contributor(s): Smith, Roger (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312680481 ISBN-13: 9780312680480 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled - Fiction | Thrillers - Crime - Fiction | Noir |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: Cape Town Thrillers |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.90 lbs) 304 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: An amphetamine-fueled thriller about a bombshell American widow on the run in Cape Town's violent badlands--from a writer being compared to George Pelecanos and Richard Price A split-second decision with no second chance: get it wrong and you wake up dead. On a blowtorch-hot night in Cape Town, American ex-model Roxy Palmer and her gunrunner husband, Joe, are carjacked, leaving Joe lying in a pool of blood. As the carjackers make their getaway, Roxy makes a fateful choice that changes her life forever. Disco and Godwynn, the ghetto gangbangers who sped away in Joe's convertible, will stop at nothing to track her down. Billy Afrika, a mixed-race ex-cop turned mercenary, won't let her out of his sight because Joe owed him a chunk of money. And remorselessly hunting them all is Piper, a love-crazed psychopath determined to renew his vows with his jailhouse wife, Disco. As these desperate lives collide and old debts are settled in blood, Roxy is caught in a wave of escalating violence in the beautiful and brutal African seaport. With savage plotting and breakneck suspense that ends in a shattering cataclysm of violence, Wake Up Dead confirms Roger Smith as one of the world's best new thriller writers. |
Contributor Bio(s): Smith, Roger: - Roger Smith, an accomplished screenwriter, director, and producer, was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and now lives in Cape Town. He is the author of the thrillers Mixed Blood and Wake Up Dead and is writing a third novel. |