Cobra

Description

Why would a mathematics professor from Cambridge University, renting a holiday home outside Cape Town, require a false identity and three bodyguards? And where is he, now that they are dead? The only clue to the bodyguards' murder is the snake engraved on the shell casings of the bullets that killed them. Investigating the massacre, Benny Griessel and his team find themselves being drawn into an international conspiracy with shocking implications. It seems it is not just the terrorists and criminals of Britain and South Africa who may fear the Professor's work, but the politicians too. As the body count begins to spiral viciously, Benny must put his new-found love life aside and focus on finding the one person who could give him a break in the case: a teenage pickpocket on the run in the city. But Benny is not the only person hunting for Tyrone Kleinbooi ... Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger, COBRA is a relentlessly suspenseful, topical and richly rewarding novel from an author who is acclaimed around the world as a brilliant voice in crime fiction -- Bookseller's description.

Description

Benny Griessel is first on the scene of a bloodbath at a luxury guesthouse on a beautiful Franschhoek wine farm. Two of the professionally executed dead are bodyguards. but there is no sign of the man they were meant to be protecting: Paul Morris, a British citizen with a brand new passport, new suitcase, new clothes, and no history, has been kidnapped. The only clue is an engraving on every shell case - the flaring head of a spitting cobra.

Subjects

Series Statement

• Benny Griessel -- 04

Other Editions

• CobraHodder & Stoughton2014-01-01
• CobraHodder & Stoughton2015-01-01