Zulu - Softcover

Férey, Caryl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933372885 ISBN 13: 9781933372884

Publisher: Europa Editions, 2010

Synopsis

As a child, Ali Neuman ran away from home to escape the Inkatha, a militant political party at war with the then-underground African National Congress. He and his mother are the only members of his family that survived the carnage of those years and the psychological scars remain. 

Today, Neuman is chief of the homicide branch of the Cape Town police, a job in which he must do battle with South Africa’s two scourges: widespread violence and AIDS. When the mutilated corpse of a young white woman is found in the city’s botanical gardens, Neuman’s job gets even more difficult. He is chasing one false lead after another when a second corpse, again that of a white woman, is found. This time, the body bears signs of a Zulu ritual. A new evil has insinuated itself into this recently integrated city. And a new drug: traces of an unknown narcotic have been found in the blood of both victims. The investigation will take Neuman back to his homeland, where he will discover that the once bloody killing fields have become the ideal no-man’s land for unscrupulous multinationals, and that the apparatchiks of apartheid still lurk in the shadows and the back rooms of a society struggling toward reconciliation.

Soon to be a major motion picture.

About this title

About the Author:

Caryl Férey's first novel to be published in English, Zulu (Europa Editions 2010), was the winner of the Nouvel Obs Crime Fiction and the Quais du Polar Readers Prizes. In 2008, it was awarded the French Grand Prix for Best Crime Novel. Utu (Europa Editions, 2011) won the Sang d'Encre, Michael Lebrun, and SNCF Crime Fiction Prizes. This is his third work of crime fiction to be published by Euorpa Editions. He lives in France.

From Publishers Weekly:

Readers should be prepared for graphic scenes of shocking violence in Férey's hard-hitting procedural, which won France's Grand Prix for Best Crime Novel. Ali Neuman, the chief of the Cape Town police crime unit, investigates the murder of 18-year-old Nicole Wiese, found one morning in the South African city's botanical gardens with her skull crushed in. Since the victim's father was a member of the Springboks rugby team that won the world championship in 1995, the case attracts heavy press coverage. The trail leads Neuman to an extraordinarily brutal narcotics gang with links to a former apartheid official. The good guys don't walk away from their encounters with the bad guys unscathed. This is a welcome addition to the growing ranks of crime books set in South Africa—powerful and unflinching in its portrayal of evil both mindless and calculating. (May)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Europa Editions
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1933372885
• ISBN 13: 9781933372884
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416