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Wake Up Dead

On a blowtorch-hot night in Cape Town, ex-model Roxy Palmer and her gunrunner husband, Joe, are carjacked, leaving Joe lying in a pool of blood. As the carjackers make their getaway, Roxy makes a choice that changes her life forever. Disco and Godwynn, the ghetto gangbangers who sped away in Joe's convertible, will stop at nothing to track her down. Billy Afrika, a mixed-race ex-cop turned mercenary, won't let her out of his sight because Joe owed him a chunk of money. And hunting them all is Piper, a love-crazed psychopath determined to renew his vows with his jailhouse "wife," Disco.

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  • ""On a blowtorchhot night in Cape Town, American exmodel Roxy Palmer and her gunrunner husband, Joe, are carjacked, leaving Joe lying in a pool of blood. As the carjackers make their getaway, Roxy makes a fateful choice that changes her life forever."From publisher description"
  • "On a blowtorch-hot night in Cape Town, ex-model Roxy Palmer and her gunrunner husband, Joe, are carjacked, leaving Joe lying in a pool of blood. As the carjackers make their getaway, Roxy makes a choice that changes her life forever, and unwittingly invites Cape Town's dark side into her secure existence in a wealthy gated community."
  • "Ein höllisch heißer Sommer in Kapstadt. Das amerikanische Ex-Model Roxy und ihr Mann Joe, ein zwielichtiger Waffenhändler, werden überfallen. Joe wird verwundet, und als die schwarzen Gangster mit seinem Wagen verschwunden sind, handelt Roxy kurz entschlossen und erschießt ihren Mann. Die beiden Gangster, die plötzlich unter Mordverdacht stehen, schwören auf Rache. Doch unverhofft findet Roxy einen Beschützer, den farbigen Billy Afrika, der allerdings seine ganz eigenen Ziele verfolgt. Und sie alle haben Piper im Nacken, einen liebesbesessenen Psychopathen, der brutal entschlossen ist, sich das zu holen, was er für sein Eigentum hält ... "An dem Abend, als sie ausgeraubt wurden, speisten Roxy Palmer und ihr Mann Joe mit einem afrikanischen Kannibalen und seiner ukrainischen Hure.""
  • "On a blowtorch-hot night in Cape Town, ex-model Roxy Palmer and her gunrunner husband, Joe, are carjacked, leaving Joe lying in a pool of blood. As the carjackers make their getaway, Roxy makes a choice that changes her life forever. Disco and Godwynn, the ghetto gangbangers who sped away in Joe's convertible, will stop at nothing to track her down. Billy Afrika, a mixed-race ex-cop turned mercenary, won't let her out of his sight because Joe owed him a chunk of money. And hunting them all is Piper, a love-crazed psychopath determined to renew his vows with his jailhouse "wife," Disco."@en
  • "Suspense fiction. 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."
  • "An amphetamine-fueled thriller about a bombshell American widow on the run in Cape Town's violent badlands'from a writer being compared to George Pelecanos and Richard Price A split-second decision with no second chance: get it wrong and you wake up dead. On a blowtorch-hot night in Cape Town, American ex-model Roxy Palmer and her gunrunner husband, Joe, are carjacked, leaving Joe lying in a pool of blood. As the carjackers make their getaway, Roxy makes a fateful choice that changes her life forever. Disco and Godwynn, the ghetto gangbangers who sped away in Joe's convertible, will stop at nothing to track her down. Billy Afrika, a mixed-race ex-cop turned mercenary, won't let her out of his sight because Joe owed him a chunk of money. And remorselessly hunting them all is Piper, a love-crazed psychopath determined to renew his vows with his jailhouse "wife," Disco. As these desperate lives collide and old debts are settled in blood, Roxy is caught in a wave of escalating violence in the beautiful and brutal African seaport. With savage plotting and breakneck suspense that ends in a shattering cataclysm of violence, Wake Up Dead confirms Roger Smith as one of the world's best new thriller writers."@en
  • ""On a blowtorch-hot night in Cape Town, American ex-model Roxy Palmer and her gunrunner husband, Joe, are carjacked, leaving Joe lying in a pool of blood. As the carjackers make their getaway, Roxy makes a fateful choice that changes her life forever."--Publisher description."

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  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Spannung"
  • "Detective and mystery fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Krimis, Thriller, Spionage"
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  • "Wake up dead : a Cape Town thriller"
  • "Wake Up Dead"@en
  • "Blutiges Erwachen"
  • "Wake up dead : a thriller"
  • "Wake up dead : a thriller"@en
  • "Blutiges Erwachen Thriller"
  • "Blutiges Erwachen [Thriller]"
  • "Blondie et la mort : roman"
  • "Blutiges Erwachen : Thriller"

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