Wake up dead : a Cape Town thriller
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Published
New York : Picador, [2011].
Edition
1st Picador pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 21 cm.
Status
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SMITH 2010
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FICTION SMITH 2010
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Published
New York : Picador, [2011].
Format
Book
Edition
1st Picador pbk. ed.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
First published: 2010.
Description
At the start of this stellar thriller from South African author Smith (Mixed Blood), Cape Town meth heads Godwynn MacIntosh and Disco De Lilly hijack wheeler-dealer Joe Palmer's Mercedes. When the two black men shoot Joe in the leg, the reaction of Joe's gold-digging American wife, a former model, is to say the least, unexpected. While honest cop Ernie Maggott tracks the carjackers, and sociopathic killer Piper pursues Disco, once his jailhouse wife, half-white Billy Afrika, a former police detective and now a mercenary to whom Joe owed a ton of cash, is bent on revenge for Piper's savage two decades-old murder of Billy's mentor. Bad choices, not bad luck, drive human depravity in this brutal fable, where the human ideals of beauty and goodness and truth can't save their possessors and even fatally attract the soulless.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Smith, R. (2011). Wake up dead: a Cape Town thriller (1st Picador pbk. ed.). Picador.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Smith, Roger, 1960-. 2011. Wake Up Dead: A Cape Town Thriller. Picador.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Smith, Roger, 1960-. Wake Up Dead: A Cape Town Thriller Picador, 2011.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Smith, Roger. Wake Up Dead: A Cape Town Thriller 1st Picador pbk. ed., Picador, 2011.
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