TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mendelson,Paul
TI  - The history of blood
T2  - Col. Vaughn de Vries
SN  - 9781472121844
U1  - 823.92 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Constable
KW  - Organized crime
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Murder
KW  - Investigation
KW  - Corruption
KW  - Cape Town (South Africa)
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - When the South African Police Service receive a panicked call for help from the wayward daughter of a former Apartheid-era politician, they discover not only her body but, within it, a message which will take Colonel Vaughn de Vries and Don February of the Special Crimes Unit on a journey through their country -- and their country's past -- to decipher and resolve. As organised crime grips South Africa, new players arrive in Cape Town, determined to exploit the poor and hopeless, promising redemption. While other government agencies snap impotently at the small fish, De Vries resolves to take it down from the top. As decades old webs of corruption and influence are exposed, and the boundaries of morality blur, his decisions begin to impact on his friends, colleagues and family
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