Wake Up Dead: A Cape Town Thriller

<p>An amphetamine-fueled thriller about a bombshell American widow on the run in Cape Town's violent badlands - from a writer being compared to George Pelecanos and Richard Price</p><p>A split-second decision with no second chance: get it wrong and you wake up dead.</p><p>On a blowtorch-hot night in Cape Town, American ex-model Roxy Palmer and her gunrunner husband, Joe, are carjacked, leaving Joe lying in a pool of blood. As the carjackers make their getaway, Roxy makes a fateful choice that changes her life forever. </p><p>Disco and Godwynn, the ghetto gangbangers who sped away in Joe's convertible, will stop at nothing to track her down. Billy Afrika, a mixed-race ex-cop turned mercenary, won't let her out of his sight because Joe owed him a chunk of money. And remorselessly hunting them all is Piper, a love-crazed psychopath determined to renew his vows with his jailhouse &quot;wife,&quot; Disco.</p><p>As these desperate lives collide and old debts are settled in blood, Roxy is caught in a wave of escalating violence in the beautiful and brutal African seaport. With savage plotting and breakneck suspense that ends in a shattering cataclysm of violence, <i>Wake Up Dead</i> confirms Roger Smith as one of the world's best new thriller writers.</p>