Revenge
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- 25,00 kr
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- 25,00 kr
Publisher Description
Newly qualified Dr. Beverley Walker working in Casualty at Groote Schuur Hospital wakes up in her bed at home and discovers she has been raped. She has absolutely no recollection of the rape or how she ingested the sleep inducing drugs, let alone how she got home.
She reports the rape to the police and then becomes dissatisfied when she discovers the wheels of law and order grind too slowly. She takes matters into her own hands only for her to discover that there is a serial rapist stalking the streets of Cape Town. The modus operandi is to drug the victim, in a public place, take them to their homes and rape them. The police warn Dr. Bev Walker that if she continues with her investigation they would be happy to jail her for interfering in police business. They further discover that young Dr. Walker is revered by the hospital staff and realise jailing Dr. Walker would backfire enormously. She ultimately becomes a member of the investigative team.
Bev is assisted by two medical colleagues. Dr. Charlie Hatton who tries his best to keep things in perspective and at the same time offer a shoulder to lean on and Dr. Herman Gleeson, a chronically ill pathologist who uncovers clues not noticed by the police and their forensic teams.
Bev decides to leave the apprehension of the rapist to the police and concentrate on the sourcing of the mind altering drugs. With the help of certain medical technologists she uncovers a massive illegal drug cartel in the Western Cape. Bev is horrified to discover that the cartel is controlled and operated by certain members of the medical community in conjunction with the police.
Life for Bev becomes even more difficult but with the able assistance of certain members of the local motorcycle gang Bev is able assist the police in the capture of the rapist and the dissolution of the drug cartel.