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Awardwinning screenwriter Malla Nunn delivers a stunning and darkly romanticcrime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa featuring Detective EmmanuelCooper a man caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the rawhunger for power make life very dangerous indeed.In a morally complex talerich with authenticity Nunn takes readers to Jacobs Rest a tiny town on theborder between South Africa and Mozambique. It is 1952 and new apartheid lawshave recently gone into effect dividing a nation into black and white whilesupposedly healing the political rifts between the Afrikaners and the English.Tensions simmer as the fault line between the oppressed and the oppressors cutsdeeper but its not until an Afrikaner police officer is found dead thatemotions more dangerous than anyone thought possible boil to thesurface.When Detective Emmanuel Cooper an Englishman begins investigatingthe murder his mission is preempted by the powerful police Security Branchwho are dedicated to their campaign to flush out black communist radicals. ButDetective Cooper isnt interested in political expediency and has never beenone for making friends. He may be modest but he radiates intelligence andcertainly wont be getting on his knees before those in power. Instead hestrikes out on his own following a trail of clues that lead him to uncover ashocking forbidden love and the imperfect life of Captain Pretorius a manwhose relationships with the black and coloured residents of the town he ruledwere more complicated and more human than anyone could have imagined.Thefirst in her Detective Emmanuel Cooper series A Beautiful Place to Die marksthe debut of a talented writer who reads like a brilliant combination ofRaymond Chandler and Graham Greene. It is a tale of murder passioncorruption and the corrosive double standard that defined an apartheid nation.I «
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