When the South African Police Service receive a panicked call for help from the wayward daughter of a former Apartheid-era politician, they discover only her body but, within it, a message which will take Colonel Vaughn de Vries and Don February of the Special Crimes Unit on a journey through their country - and their country's past - to decipher and resolve. A new thriller set against the richly described backdrop of Cape Town by the author of "The First Rule of Survival" and "The Serpentine Road".