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About A Strait-laced Man

It had been a professional hit - a small calibre entrance wound behind the left ear, the facial expression one of surprise... As Jacques Roux looked down at his dead friend, he felt the first stirrings of a terrible rage. It was an old rage, a rage he thought he had buried for ever when he swapped the South African intelligence services for a life of fishing off the coast of Mozambique... So, when the haunting voice of his old boss called him back into service the next day, he agreed - yes, and there were old scores to settle, in Angola, with Julia, and with the man they called the Scorpion. Set in the weeks leading up to South Africa's first democratic elections, this racy thriller unfolds a fantastic plot not only to rock the sensitive political situation but to send the whole of southern African whirling back into darkness, turmoil and violence.

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