James McClure Boeken

Tollie Erasmus, an unsavory bank robber on the run, is hung from the neck until dead. Unfortunately, execution was administered without the benefit of South African judge or jury. Somewhere there’s a killer who knows far too much about the hangman’s craft, and Lieutenant Tromp Kramer and his Bantu assistant Mickey Zondi must find him before his trail of death continues.

A half-dead man crashes his car at the Iraqi border. He is found to have suffered a rare reaction to the smallpox vaccine. But why are the Iraqi's innoculating their population against a disease which has been wiped out for twenty years? Soon after this, a young Iraqi student at the Institute of Molecular Science in Edinburgh kills himself for no apparent reason. At first there seems to be no connection. But then medical investigator Adam Dewar stumbles on the horrific possibility that the Iraqis could have asked the student to reconstruct the virus from the fragments he had been working on. And then smallpox breaks out on the Muirhouse Estate. The priority is to contain the virus, but with riots breaking out on the estate, and the death toll rising, Dewar is in a race against time to discover the source of the disease and prevent it falling into the hands of a hostile nation. A nation which would be only too willing to hold the world to ransom...

The investigation led by Lieutenant Kramer and Sergeant Zondi unfolds as they tackle two seemingly unrelated murders: an adult entertainer found strangled and a candy shop owner shot during a robbery. As they dig deeper, they uncover complexities that suggest these crimes may not be straightforward robberies. With a string of neighborhood incidents under scrutiny, the detectives must unravel the true motives behind the killings and identify the elusive killer before more lives are lost.

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A fascinating look at Policing in Liverpool in the early 1980s

Im Kofferraum eines Autos wird die verweste Leiche eines Mannes gefunden. Der Anblick ist grauenvoll, doch beunruhigender als der Verwesungszustand sind die Verstümmelungen, die der Tote aufweist. Es wirkt, als wurde er mit unmenschlicher Kraft misshandelt. Treibt ein mordlustiger Riese sein Unwesen in Trekkersburg? Einer konnte dem Mörder nur knapp entrinnen, da er sich tot stellte. Ist es bloßer Zufall, dass beide Opfer im Zweiten Weltkrieg Piloten der RAF waren? Während Lieutenant Tromp Kramer und Sergeant Michael Zondi versuchen, das Rätsel zu lösen und sich dabei respektlos in die Privatangelegenheiten der Trekkersburger Bürger einmischen, erfindet Gerichtsmediziner Dr. Styrdom ausgefallene Experimente mit Leichenteilen, um dem Riesen auf die Spur zu kommen.

Laut dem Dorfpfarrer hatte niemand einen Grund, Hugo Swart, den treuen und angesehenen Bürger, zu hassen. Doch am Weihnachtsabend liegt dieser niedergestochen in seiner Küche. Es sieht aus, als könnte das einzige Motiv Geld gewesen sein, und so verdächtigt man Swarts Diener, Shabalala, der mittlerweile aufs Land geflohen ist. Detective Michael Zondi verfolgt den Tatverdächtigen in entlegensten Dörfern, während Lieutenant Tromp Kramer mit einer anderen Angelegenheit beauftragt wird: einem Autounfall unter Alkoholeinfluss. Kramer zieht bald Parallelen zwischen beiden Fällen und versucht, den Bewohnern von Trekkersburg Informationen abzugewinnen. Die Behauptungen des Dorfpfarrers entpuppen sich langsam aber sicher als blanke Lügen.