Publisher Description
Relentless South African private investigator Jade de Jong tracks a saboteur in a race to prevent a nuclear disaster in Jassy Mackenzie’s new, pulse-pounding thriller.
Despite her checkered history with law enforcement, Johannesburg private investigator Jade de Jong is attempting to operate on the right side of the law, confining herself to low-profile cases. But her remarkably attractive new employer, Ryan Gillespie, has tasked her with finding a missing security official after a break-in at the nuclear energy plant he runs. The target of her search is Carlos Botha, a skilled operative and a threat to national security.
Jade traces Botha to a run-down suburb, but discovers she’s not the only one looking for him. Someone has put a hit out on Botha, and Jade forms an unlikely alliance with her mark in order to learn more. But how long can she keep up the facade of friendship before he realizes she’s been hired to track him?
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Jade de Jong has squeaked through some scary situations, but her luck just might have run out in the explosive fifth outing for Mackenzie's steely Johannesburg PI (after 2013's Pale Horses). Within days of being hired by Inkomfe nuclear-plant security director Ryan Gillespie to tail AWOL consultant Carlos Botha, who Gillespie suspects is involved in a recent sabotage attempt at the plant, Jade discovers two murder victims and narrowly escapes what look to be professional hit men. She soon finds herself fleeing for her life with Botha. Though Jade by no means trusts the mysterious Botha, she starts to suspect that Gillespie hasn't been completely candid. And, truth be told, she isn't totally immune to the buff Botha's animal magnetism, especially in the wake of breaking up with her married sometime-colleague, Supt. David Patel. While this installment lacks the haunted poetry of Pale Horses, it is still a propulsive page-turner featuring distinctly South African characters and concerns.)
