Description
Smashed skull, snapped ribs, and a cloying smell of carrion. Leave the body for the hyenas to devour--no body, no case.
But Kalahari game rangers stumble on the human corpse mid-meal. The murder wasn't perfect after all. Enter Detective David Kubu Bengu of the Botswana Criminal Investigation Department, an investigator whose personality and physique match his moniker, the Setswana word for hippopotamus--which is a seemingly docile beast, but one of the deadliest, and most persistent, on the continent.
Beneath a mountain of lies and superstitions, Kubu uncovers a chain of crimes leading to the most powerful figures in the country--cold-bloodedly efficient and frighteningly influential enemies who can make anyone who gets in their way disappear.
Author: Michael Stanley
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 03/31/2009
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780061252419
ISBN10: 0061252417
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Police Procedural
- Fiction | Thrillers | Suspense
- Fiction | Crime