Eben Beukes

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The Cherry Red Shadow

Beschreibung

December 1991. South Africa dismantles six thermonuclear devices. July 1994. Weeks after the Government of Reconciliation takes power the newly appointed Director of National Intelligence learns that a nuclear weapon has surfaced in the hands of an international arms dealer. Open for business the country cannot afford anything that would rock the boat. The bomb must be found and nobody must ever know it existed. But who to trust? In charge of the very organisation that put him behind bars, he needs outside help. Enter Harry Dance, ex-special forces and sometime fellow prisoner on The Island. And for insurance he teams him up with his own man and Harry can't stand terrorists, not even newly respectable ones. Soon Harry discovers they are dealing with far more than an old fashioned atom bomb. No problem. But he has never been up against a stone killer who makes death an emotional experience with a silver handled stiletto... The story behind Red Mercury and the race for the ultimate weapon of terror.

Autor

Growing up in apartheid-era South Africa Eben Beukes experienced at first hand the turbulent transition period of that country to a modern democracy. A University of Stellenbosch graduate he worked as a young surgeon in several of the country's "black hospitals" after completing his compulsory military service in the SADF.In later years he worked as a surgeon at a large military hospital in Saudi Arabia, two years in New Zealand and for the five years leading up to 2006 was a senior surgeon at the Armed Forces Hospital in Kuwait City, the base hospital at the start of the Iraq War in 2003.His experience during the six weeks war led to the publication of Pockets of Resistance documenting the often farcical and always chaotic inner workings of a large military hospital with Americans and Arabs reluctantly rubbing shoulders while in the throes of a hot war. A total of seven years in the Middle East provided the background for both The Mask of Louka (Saudi Arabia) and its sequel, Devil's Tumble, both featuring British educated Kuwaiti detective, Riad Ajmi.Earlier novels were political thrillers set against the background of a newly democratic South Africa. These feature Harry Dance in the Shadows of a Rainbow trilogy: The Cherry Red Shadow, The Lily White Shadow and the recently published The Blue Ice Shadow.Other novels include Any Way the Wind Blows, a noir detective novel as well as A Straitlaced Man.Eben Beukes lives in Australia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lulu.com
• Seitenzahl: 616
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 785g
• ISBN-13: 9781326271282
• ISBN-10: 1326271288
• Artikelnr.: 43020828