Cape Town: winter. Two wealthy native Americans, looking to invest in a local casino development. A German weapons scientist, on the run from a gang of Eastern European thugs. Straightforward enough security jobs for Mace Bishop and Pylon Buso, it seems, but when one of the Americans is kidnapped and a Cape Times reporter starts showing too much interest in the scientist's murky Balkan past, things rapidly threaten to spiral out of control. Mace, raw from the murder of his wife and struggling to hold onto his teenage daughter, soon finds himself fighting for his survival ? literally. Behind it all is the scheming of the exquisitely sinister Sheemina February, stalking him at every turn and intent on revenge. Mace's only hope is to find her before she gets to him. At once a moody but fast-paced thriller and a powerful indictment of the modern, corrupt South Africa, Black Heart brings Mike Nicol's trilogy to a heart-stopping conclusion. AUTHOR: Mike Nicol was born and lives in Cape Town. His previous novels have been published by Bloomsbury in the UK and Knopf in the US. The Revenge Trilogy is his first work of crime fiction. REVIEWS: ?World class . . . pace, wonderful characters and brilliant dialogue' -ELLE on Killer Country ?If you have to spend a weekend alone, with only one book for company, you'd want one that reads as slickly and as compellingly as Killer Country... His writing is taut and snappy, his chapters quick and compelling. His heroes, Bishop and Busi, have seen it all, done it all' - SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
