Wake Up Dead (Cape Town #2)

Posted on 02 October 2017 by Roger Smith

An amphetamine fueled thriller about a bombshell American widow on the run in Cape Town s violent badlands from a writer being compared to George Pelecanos and Richard PriceA split second decision with no second chance get it wrong and you wake up dead.On a blowtorch hot night in Cape Town, American ex model Roxy Palmer and her gunrunner husband, Joe, are carjacked, leaving Joe lying in a pool of blood As the carjackers make their getaway, Roxy makes a fateful choice that changes her life forever.Disco and Godwynn, the ghetto gangbangers who sped away in Joe s convertible, will stop at nothing to track her down Billy Afrika, a mixed race ex cop turned mercenary, won t let her out of his sight because Joe owed him a chunk of money And remorselessly hunting them all is Piper, a love crazed psychopath determined to renew his vows with his jailhouse wife, Disco.As these desperate lives collide and old debts are settled in blood, Roxy is caught in a wave of escalating violence in the beautiful and brutal African seaport With savage plotting and breakneck suspense that ends in a shattering cataclysm of violence, Wake Up Dead confirms Roger Smith as one of the world s best new thriller writers. Best Read [ Wake Up Dead (Cape Town #2) ] author [ Roger Smith ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I was thrilled to find another South African crime writer, but found the violence is this book to be excessive The book opens with a carjacking in Cape Town where the arms dealer husband of American Roxy Palmer dies and the gangbanger perpetrators Disco and Godwynn , take center stage Meanwhile, ex cop...This review is based on an ARC of Wake Up Dead by Roger Smith, the author of Mixed Blood Wake Up Dead will be published by Henry Holt Co in February 2010 Roger lives in Cape Town, South Africa His web site is Roger Smith BooksLinks to sources that show the environment in which Wake Up Dead is set are at the end of the review.As with Roger s first book, Mixed Blood, Wake Up Dead hits me at an intellectual as well as emotional level It isn t a read toss forget novel A good bit of this This review is based on an ARC of Wake Up Dead by Roger Smith, the author of Mixed Blood Wake Up Dead will be published by Henry Holt Co in February 2010 Roger lives in Cape Town, South Africa His web site is Roger Smith BooksLinks to sources that show the environment in which Wake Up Dead is set are at the end of the review.As with Roger s first book, Mixed Blood, Wake Up Dead hits me at an intellectual as well as emotional level It isn t a read toss forget novel A good bit of this feeling come from my having lived in Pretoria, South Africa as a young boy, between 1952 and 1956 Looking back now I am stunned by what was happening at the time with apartheid and how clueless I was I came to South Africa and at 6 yrs old and left when I was ten so that is perhap...After reading about the renaissance in South African crime fiction in Library Journal and Booklist, I decided to take a look at this book Blurbed by one of my favorite authors, Ken Bruen, as unrelenting noir it seemed like a good place to start Beginning with a carjacking and a murder and building to a horror show of atrocities, this story certainly isn t for the weak of stomach Billy Afrika, a mixed race former mercenary and cop is the pivotal character around which a wild cast of characte After reading about the renaissance in South African crime fiction in Library Journal and Booklist, I decided to take a look at this book Blurbed by one of my favorite authors, Ken Bruen, as unrelenting noir it seemed like a good place to start Beginning with a carjacking and a murder and building to a horror show of atrocities, this story certainl...Despite being a 290 pages thriller, the whole plot took not even a week The Book is about a Business Man hijacked with his wife on their way home after meeting a cannibal After hijackers had left and dropped their gun, the irresistible wife shot the Husband A series of events erupt and within few days the wife get the Car It is a fiction about the post apartheid South Africa and some of the plots seem to be real like the spooky lives of inmates at Pollsmoor Prison, a prison I hear you wouldn Despite being a 290 pages thriller, the whole plot took not even a week The Book is about a Business Man hijacked with his wife on their way home after meeting a cannibal After hijackers had left and dropped their gun, the irresistible wife shot the Husband A series of events erupt and within few days the wife get the Car It is a fiction about the post apartheid South Africa and...I can t believe I haven t heard of Roger Smith before, especially since he is a South African author Wake Up Dead is a fast paced thriller with lots of action it starts with a bang and the suspense builds right up until the cataclysmic end I liked the characters and ...Looking for a page turning crime thriller Wake Up Dead is violent crime story, full of bad people doing bad things.With a book title like that you shouldn t be expecting puppies, ponies and rainbows.Two meth addicts on the streets of Cape Town decide to carjack a Mercedes They pull ex model Roxy and her husband out of the car and shoot him in the leg, leaving behind the gun in their meth induced haze Roxy decides on a quicky divorce and uses the gun to end her marriage Till death us do part Looking for a page turning crime thriller Wake Up Dead is violent ...This thriller is one that keeps you up, and reading to the end Set in South Africa, Roxy, an American model, and Joe, her gunrunner husband, a man with very unsavory friends, are carjacked, leaving Joe dead in a pool of blood Disco and Godwyn, the carjackers, are meth addicts, who have no idea what they ve gotten into Joe owes money to Billy Afrika, a mercenary, and former policeman, who appoints himself Roxy s protector, hoping to cash in and get his money from her Also thrown into the powd This thriller is one that keeps you up, and reading to the end Set in South Africa, Roxy, an American model, and Joe, her gunrunner husband, a man with very unsavory friends, are carjacked, leaving Joe dead ...I really enjoyed this book, it keeps you wondering whats going to happen.A Thriller is right I had a hard time putting this book down Full of action and characters who seemed to come to life I ll look forby this author.Roger Smith s second novel Wake Up Dead is definitely not in the same category as his great debut Mixed Blood 4 stars my review is on Goodreads Mr Smith s first thriller, in addition to extreme violence and interesting plot, had depth and realistic characterizations Both novels paint a horrifying portrait of Cape Flats, the Cape Town ghetto, but while the first book delivers acute social observation, Wake Up Dead , also very brutal, is mostly about the plot and does not make connectio Roger Smith s second novel Wake Up Dead is definitely not in the same category as his great debut Mixed Blood 4 stars my review is on Goodreads Mr Smith s first thriller, in addition to extreme violence and interesting plot, had depth and realistic characterizations Both novels paint a horrifying portrait of Cape Flats, the Cape Town ghetto, but while the first book delivers acute social observation, Wake Up Dead , also very brutal, is mostly about the plot and does not make connection between the violence and the social conditions.Roxy, an ex model and wife of an owner of a Cape Town agency that provides mercenary services, survives carjacking during which her husband is killed Roxy s future is threatened by Billy Afrika, an ex cop and a security contactor, back in Cape Town after being fired from his protection job in Iraq A repulsive detective Maggott, one of the few non corrupt cops, is trying to find the truth about the carjacking These three as well as almost ten...

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02 October 2017

Roger Smith