Book description
CAPE TOWN: winter. A wealthy Native American couple, looking to
invest in a local casino development. A German weapons scientist, on
the run from a gang of Eastern European thugs. Ordinary enough
security jobs for Mace Bishop and Pylon Buso, it seems, but when one
of the Americans is kidnapped and a local reporter starts showing too
much interest in the scientist's murky Balkan past, things quickly
spiral out of control.
Mace, raw from the murder of his wife,
soon finds himself fighting for his own survival while struggling to
hold onto his grief-stricken teenage daughter. Behind the scenes,
everywhere and nowhere, the beautiful and sinister Sheemina February
pulls the strings, stalking him at every turn, intent on revenge for
past misdeeds. Mace's only hope is to find her before she gets to him
. . .
A razor-sharp thriller, a devastating portrait of political
corruption and featuring an exquisitely nasty villain, Black Heart is
a stylish, unmissable entertainment.
Mike Nicol was born in Cape Town, where he still lives. The Revenge
Trilogy, his first foray into crime fiction, has been greeted with
widespread critical acclaim. His previous novels have been published by
Bloomsbury in the UK, and by Knopf in the USA.
