Award-winning screenwriter Malla Nunn brings back Detective Emmanuel Cooper in a stunning novel about murder, power and a dangerous South African underworld.
Emmanuel Cooper's life has an "ex" through it: ex-soldier, ex-detective sergeant and ex-white man. He now works undercover surveillance on the seedy Durban docks to make a living. All that changes when the brutal murder of a young boy forces Cooper out of the shadows. He must elude the police to conduct his own unofficial investigation. After two more similar murders, Cooper becomes the police department's prime suspect. He dives into the Durban underworld for answers and find that the killings are part of an international tussle for the political soul of South Africa. Under the pressure of new racial segregation laws, Cooper must find the killer before the Durban police pin the crimes on him.
~My thoughts~
Once again, a sequel falls into my hands for which I haven't read the first installment. This book can stand alone, but I would be willing to bet money that I would have understood the main character a little more if I read the first book. I don't understand political intrigue very well, so this book lost me in places but I held on to the end because I wanted to find out who the killer was. There are questions and topics for discussion in the back of the book if you have a book club and there is an interesting conversation with the author after that.
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