Nothing to Lose - Martin, Richard
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Michael Stone thinks he's an experienced consultant. But when he's sent to investigate a case of corruption in South Africa involving a government minister whose department manages national roads projects, he's thrown into a world of conspiracy and intrigue. While he's ploughing through official documents, he becomes aware of another storm brewing: the threatened demolition of Alexandra (home to more than 350,000 poor people in the heart of South Africa's most expensive real estate) with the intention of turning it into executive housing. The residents' resistance to demolition is met by arson…mehr

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Michael Stone thinks he's an experienced consultant. But when he's sent to investigate a case of corruption in South Africa involving a government minister whose department manages national roads projects, he's thrown into a world of conspiracy and intrigue. While he's ploughing through official documents, he becomes aware of another storm brewing: the threatened demolition of Alexandra (home to more than 350,000 poor people in the heart of South Africa's most expensive real estate) with the intention of turning it into executive housing. The residents' resistance to demolition is met by arson and violence, but behind it all is the one and same minister, who happens also to be chairman of the developers. Michael's sympathies draw him to the protestors, and he offers to share his Greenpeace skills as an activist to help their cause. Before long, there are threats to his life, and he has to go into hiding. Meanwhile, his efforts to help the residents' struggle are slow to bear fruit, and his motives for helping them are questioned. Suspicions flare, and his life is threatened by the same people he is trying to help. One thing is sure: it will end badly.
Autorenporträt
Richard Martin's recent books from Spuyten Duyvil are Chapter & Verse, Ceremony of the Unknown, Goosebumps of Antimatter, and Techniques in the Neighborhood of Sleep. He is the author of a series of four chapbooks from Igneus Press: Hard Labor, Cosmic Sandbox, Sighting Icarus and Hobo Return. Individual poems from his books have been translated into Vietnamese, Chinese and Russian. Martin is a past recipient of a NEA Fellowship for Poetry, founder of the Big Horror Poetry Series in Binghamton, New York (1983-1996), and a retired Boston Public Schools principal. He lives in Boston with his family.