MeltdownSamuel Spendlove, one of the brightest young academics at Oxford, has given it all up to work undercover for William Barton, owner of a massive media empire. His reasons are complicated, but hes finding he gets a thrill out of working for Khan, the legendary market trader, working out of the Paris office of Ropners Bank, whose dealings have been known to bring nations to their knees. Barton wants information about Khan. He wants revenge over a man who

Full of dry wit

only to become involved in a sensational murder

slithers back to the surface

muscles in on Big Ger Cafferty's turf and Rebus's local knowledge becomes essential to the efforts to shut down Telford's business as a drug dealer

Forty years after its abolition

Bound together in ways they cannot comprehend

This examination into the sexual and poliitcal lawlines of modern South Africa as it tries desperately to start a fresh page in its history is chilling

and as December begins the situation is getting desperate

When a legendary cult director calls in Dervish as consultant for a new horror movie

the spine has a slight lean and appears to be read

Just before the Closing Speeches

this is where we'd tell you what this book is about