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Dead of Night

Dead of Night

Author(s): Michael Stanley

Location(s): South Africa

Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

Era(s): contemporary

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When freelance journalist, Crystal Nguyen, heads to South Africa, she thinks she’ll be researching an article on rhino-horn smuggling for National Geographic, but within a week she’s been hunting poachers, hunted by their bosses, and then arrested in connection with a murder. And everyone is after a briefcase full of money that she doesn’t want, but can’t get rid of…

Fleeing South Africa, she goes undercover in Vietnam, trying to discover the truth before she’s exposed by the local mafia. Discovering the plot behind the money is only half the battle. Now she must convince the South African authorities to take action before it’s too late, both for the rhinos and for her. She has a powerful story to tell, if she survives long enough to tell it…

Fast-paced, relevant and chilling, Dead of Night is a stunning new thriller from Michael Stanley, author of the award-winning Detective Kubu series, introducing an intriguing new protagonist, while exposing one of the most vicious conflicts on the African continent…

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Crystal Nguyen, a freelance journalist, has lost contact with her friend (and potential lover) Michael Davidson whilst the latter was investigating a story about rhino poaching and rhino-horn smuggling in South Africa for National...

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