MONSTER

360pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2022

Text in Afrikaans. 

Ex-police detective Carl Bester joins the Cape Town branch of Mercurius, a mainstay of the CIA. When a world-renowned Saudi journalist is murdered in a consulate in Istanbul, with a South African journalist as an eyewitness, he is instructed to take the case.

Rudie van Rensburg was born in Bloemfontein in 1951 and now lives in Cape Town. His thrillers include Vloek, Merk, Medusa and Ys.