Capture (40 page)
“Both horrific to read and impossible to put down.” NPR
“The Cape Town setting recaptures all the blood and menace that time and nostalgia have effaced from Raymond Chandler’s mean streets and redoubles them.”
Philadelphia Inquirer
“A bleak but magnificent portrait of a still-divided city.”
The Guardian
“Smith plays out that chilling sense of inevitability that is at the heart of the best noir. Like George Pelecanos, he captures lives trapped by poverty and prejudice without sentimentalizing those lives or downplaying the havoc they can produce.”
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About the author
Roger Smith’s thrillers
Mixed Blood
,
Wake Up Dead
and
Dust Devils
are published in seven languages and two are in development as movies in the U.S. His books have won the
Deutscher Krimi Preis
(German Crime Fiction Award) and been nominated for
Spinetingler Magazine Best Novel
awards. He recently published a novella,
Ishmael Toffee
. Visit his
website
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© 2012 by Roger Smith
All rights reserved
Capture
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means without the express written permission of the author or publisher except where permitted by law.