1. FEAR TONIGHT — WANDERER DETECTIVE SERIES
In the dimly lit, smoky atmosphere of the exclusive Paradise Club, fear is the uninvited guest. For the singer Myra Heyns, the evening’s performance is a torture. She has inadvertently overheard something she should not have, a conversation the dangerous club owner, Hymie Turok, wants to keep secret at all costs. Her panic is tangible, and before long, she is summoned to Turok’s office. Her friend, Bettie de Lange, can only watch helplessly as Myra disappears into the shadows, on her way to a confrontation from which she may not return.
But they are not alone. At a nearby table sits the wanderer detective, Obed de Swardt. He is a man of many talents, immensely wealthy, a rugby hero, and a private investigator with a razor-sharp instinct for danger. He observes the unfolding drama, and his suspicions are confirmed when, later that night, he sees Turok’s henchmen smuggling an unconscious Myra out through a side door. In a lightning-fast and brutal confrontation in the dark parking lot, De Swardt rescues the girl, but he soon realizes that this is only the beginning. It is not just Turok who is involved; a ruthless syndicate is pulling all the strings.
De Swardt’s efforts to expose the truth plunge him into a deadly web of danger and deceit. He is led into a trap, captured, and left for dead. Through sheer willpower and his fists, he survives a rendezvous with death, only to discover that the world has turned against him. The police, under the leadership of the skeptical Major Dirk Laas, believe a different, simpler story. The newspapers scream of suicide. And the girl he is trying to protect, the only witness, lies blatantly to his face and paints him as the villain. Alone, distrusted by the police and with an invisible enemy watching his every move, Obed de Swardt must dig deeper. As the body count rises, a desperate race against time begins to unmask a mastermind lurking in the shadows, someone for whom murder is just another business transaction.
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