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Mixed Blood (Hardcover)

By: Roger Smith (Author)

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"Screenwriter Smith offers a gritty tale of corruption and vengeance ...[an] absorbing debut."

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When the family of a reluctant bank robber in hiding is victimized by a gangland assault, Benny Mongrel, an ex-con and night watchman, keeps quiet to avoid exposing his own troubled past but is drawn into the bank robber's cat-and-mouse backlash against a corrupt Afrikaner cop. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.

An American fugitive hides out in Cape Town--one of the world's most beautiful and violent cities--in this riveting debut thriller that asks: Can you ever outrun your past?

Reluctant bank robber Jack Burn is on the run after a heist in the United States that left $3 million missing and one cop dead. Hiding out in Cape Town, South Africa, he is desperate to build a new life for his pregnant wife and young son. But on a tranquil evening in their new suburban neighborhood they are the victims of a random gangland assault that changes everything.

Benny Mongrel, an ex-con night watchman guarding a building site next to Burn's home, is another man desperate to escape his past. After years in the ghetto gangs of Cape Town he knows who went into Burn's house. And what the American did to them. He also knows his only chance to save his own brown skin is to forget what he saw.

Burn's actions on that night trap them both in a cat-and-mouse game with Rudi "Gatsby" Barnard--a corrupt Afrikaner cop who loves killing almost as much as he loves Jesus Christ--and Disaster Zondi, a fastidious Zulu detective who wishes to settle an old score. Once Gatsby smells those missing American millions, the four men are drawn into a web of murder and vengeance that builds to an unforgettable conclusion.

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In his debut thriller, Roger Smith sets this grisly fugitive-on-the-run saga against Cape Town's extreme wealth-and-poverty disparity. While the fancy beaches are populated by wealthy tourists and business people, the slums on the outskirts of town known as Cape Flats foment violence and drug abuse. But when a dirty cop gets wind of American Jack Burns's sketchy past, it proves that corruption thrives across class lines. This great first effort will leave readers looking forward to the next from Smith.

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