Seven years ago in Cape Town three South African schoolboys were abducted in broad daylight on consecutive days.

They were never seen again:

Now, a new case for the unpredictable Colonel Vaughn de Vries casts a light on the original enquiry; for him, a personal failure which has haunted him for those seven years and has cost him his marriage and peace of mind.

Struggling in a mire of departmental and racial rivalry, de Vries seeks the whole truth and unravels a complex history of abuse, deception and murder.

Set against the richly described background of Cape Town and the endless rolling veld, this chilling thriller reveals layer on layer of abuse - physical, political and psychological.

'A jaw-droppingly brilliant crime thriller.'

Philip Glenister