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Reconciliation for the Dead (Claymore Striker 3)
Paul E. Hardisty
Fresh from events in Yemen and Cyprus, vigilante justice-seeker Claymore Straker returns to South Africa, seeking absolution for the sins of his past. Over four days, he testifies to Desmond Tutu’s newly established Truth and Reconciliation Commission, recounting the shattering events that led to his dishonourable discharge and exile, fifteen years earlier...
It was 1980. The height of the Cold War. Clay is a young paratrooper in the South African Army, fighting in Angola against the Communist insurgency that threatens to topple the White Apartheid regime. On a patrol deep inside Angola, Clay, and his best friend, Eben Barstow, find themselves enmeshed in a tangled conspiracy that threatens everything they have been taught to believe about war, and the sacrifices that they, and their brothers in arms, are expected to make. Witness and unwitting accomplice to an act of shocking brutality, Clay changes allegiance and finds himself labelled a deserter and accused of high treason, setting him on a journey into the dark, twisted heart of institutionalised hatred, from which no one will emerge unscathed.
Exploring true events from one of the most hateful chapters in South African history, Reconciliation for the Dead is a shocking, explosive and gripping thriller from one finest writers in contemporary crime fiction.
It was 1980. The height of the Cold War. Clay is a young paratrooper in the South African Army, fighting in Angola against the Communist insurgency that threatens to topple the White Apartheid regime. On a patrol deep inside Angola, Clay, and his best friend, Eben Barstow, find themselves enmeshed in a tangled conspiracy that threatens everything they have been taught to believe about war, and the sacrifices that they, and their brothers in arms, are expected to make. Witness and unwitting accomplice to an act of shocking brutality, Clay changes allegiance and finds himself labelled a deserter and accused of high treason, setting him on a journey into the dark, twisted heart of institutionalised hatred, from which no one will emerge unscathed.
Exploring true events from one of the most hateful chapters in South African history, Reconciliation for the Dead is a shocking, explosive and gripping thriller from one finest writers in contemporary crime fiction.
GENRE
Thriller
UK PUBLICATION
May 2017
Thriller
UK PUBLICATION
May 2017
Praise
"A stormer of a thriller, vividly written, utterly topical, totally gripping."
Peter James, author of Need You Dead
"Remarkably well-written and sophisticated."
Jessica Mann, Literary Review
"Laces the thrills and spills with enough moral indignation to give the book heft... excellent."
Jake Kerridge, Telegraph
"Hardisty's searing third Claymore Striker thriller... can be disturbingly graphic but it also at times achieves the level of genuine poetry."
Publishers Weekly
Peter James, author of Need You Dead
"Remarkably well-written and sophisticated."
Jessica Mann, Literary Review
"Laces the thrills and spills with enough moral indignation to give the book heft... excellent."
Jake Kerridge, Telegraph
"Hardisty's searing third Claymore Striker thriller... can be disturbingly graphic but it also at times achieves the level of genuine poetry."
Publishers Weekly
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