Book description
Set amid the beauty and darkness of modern Botswana, the second in the
fantastic crime series featuring the opera-loving wine connoisseur
Assistant Superintendant David 'Kubu' Bengu of the Botswana Police
Force. When a mutilated body is found at a tourist camp in northern
Botswana, the corpse displays the classic signs of a revenge killing.
But when fingerprints are analysed Detective 'Kubu' Bengu Kubu makes a
shocking discovery: the victim is already dead. He was slain in the
Rhodesian war thirty ago. Kubu soon realises that nothing at the camp is
as it seems. And as the guests are picked off one by one, time is
running out. With rumours of horrifying war crimes, the scent of a
drug-smuggling trail and mounting pressure from his superiors to contend
with, Kubu forgets there is one door left unguarded - his own. And as he
sets a trap to find a murderer, the hunters are closing in on him...
Michael Stanley is the writing team of native Africans Michael Sears and
Stanley Trollip. The two friends have had many adventures together,
including tracking lions at night, fighting bush fires on the Savuti
plains in northern Botswana, surviving a charging elephant, and losing
their navigation maps while flying over the Kalahari. Sears lives in
Johannesburg, South Africa. Stanley divides his time between South
Africa and Minneapolis, MN.
