Wake up Dead
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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 A split-second decision with no second chance: get it wrong and you wake up dead. 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. 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 "wife," Disco. 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, Wake Up Dead confirms Roger Smith as one of the world's best new thriller writers.
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Smith, R. (2010). Wake up Dead. Henry Holt and Co.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Smith, Roger. 2010. Wake Up Dead. Henry Holt and Co.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Smith, Roger, Wake Up Dead. Henry Holt and Co, 2010.
MLA Citation (style guide)Smith, Roger. Wake Up Dead. Henry Holt and Co, 2010.
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| dateLastUpdated | Jan 27, 2025 06:12:32 PM |
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