Lily White

DEADLY LILY WHITE. THE FINAL SOLUTION PREPARED BY THE PUPPET MASTERS OF THE APARTHEID SERPENT. A PLAN SO DEADLY IT COULD PLUNGE THE FLEDGLING RAINBOW NATION INTO A BLOODFEST OF RAGING CIVIL WAR. THE SOURCE OF PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA’S RECURRING NIGHTMARE. THE ULTRA. FIND AND DESTROY. DETAILS NEVER TO BE DISCLOSED. It was going to be a one off deal. What with the guns lying limbo in that warehouse in Morocco and four million dollars sitting in a secret bank account in Lusaka it was simply a matter of arranging a marriage of true minds. Bring the two together, willing seller and willing buyer and what could go wrong? It is two years since Harry Dance last tangled with the demons from his past. Two years after the deadly race that was Cherry Red finds him living the good life in the south of Spain, Harry not being exactly persona grata in his native South Africa after hijacking the Rainbow Nation’s mini nuke and selling it to the Americans. It seemed a logical move to take over the lucrative arms dealing business of the late Don Luis Sanchez and in this venture he finds ready partners in ex- Spear of the Nation hardman Vusi Mkhize and his old nemesis Alfred Sepeng, one time ANC head of National Intelligence. For once even Selena, Harry’s long suffering secretary and more recently wife, agrees that it all makes sense and perhaps after this last big bounce they could think about retiring from this taxing albeit exciting way of life. Just to give their life expectancy a bit of a boost. Too easy. Except there’s a fly in the ointment in the shape of a CIA man who’s still smarting from egg on his face after his last tangle with Harry and Co and sees the chance to even the score and an English spy with an agenda all of his own. And soon Harry finds himself back in the old business of supping with the devil, this time in the guise of a hard as nails tycoon who has his sights set on the prize of a lifetime and all he needs is the right man to fetch it for him. There’s only one snag, the prize is hidden in an icy South African Antarctic base and the only access is by having a man on the team about to depart for SANAE on board the icebreaker Agulhas. Not only would this man have to be a South African, he’d have to be a hard man and then there would be the small matter of making him see reason... With Selena a hostage and his new life in ruins Harry finds himself flung back into belly of the beast and this time the lives of thousands hinge on him getting to Lily White first. Soon he finds there are others on board every bit as determined as he to get to the contents of that ice bound steel box first, others who would think nothing of killing whoever stood in their way. And when Harry finally learns what he is dealing with the sheer horror of it threatens to overwhelm his senses and more than ever before he has to bluff and trick his way through to a winning hand when all he holds is the Jack of Spades and facing Aces High... The fast paced sequel to Cherry Red takes up the tale of South Africa’s grim legacy from the apartheid years. Secrets so deadly they can never see the light and have to be buried as far away from humanity as possible. And it doesn’t get more remote than the South Pole.