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Wake Up Dead: A Cape Town Thriller Hardcover - 2010

by Smith, Roger


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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.

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  • Title Wake Up Dead: A Cape Town Thriller
  • Author Smith, Roger
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 304
  • Publisher Henry Holt and Co., New York
  • Date 2010-02
  • ISBN 9780805088762

About the author

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. Visit Roger Smith's website at www.RogerSmithBooks.com.

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