It’s early morning in Cape Town and Bennie Griessel, homicide detective with the South African Police Service, has a bad feeling. He’s been sober for nearly six months—156 days. But day 157 is going to be tough. A teenage girl’s body has been found on the street, her throat cut. The girl was an American—a P.R. nightmare in the #1 tourist destination in South African. And she wasn’t alone. Somewhere in Cape town her friend, Rachel Anderson, an innocent American girl, is hopefully still alive.In Thirteen Hours, the latest from the man hailed as the “King of South African Crime,” Detective Griessel races against the clock to unravel two murders and track down Rachel Anderson in a single day. The book opens with Rachel on the run, terrified and unsure of where to turn.
