Review: Enthralling
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 2, 2013
I set off to spend a long awaited weekend by the sea and started reading  Choice of Weapon on the train journey. I was transported from the gentle landscape we travelled through to a sun scorched, savage country where violence is the norm and where there are still men who believe that the only way to stop evil is with a choice of weapon.Garrett is a man who has turned his back on his African past and lives alone in a crofters cottage in the Highlands of Scotland. He rarely ventures far from his isolated home but one day he gets a phone call from Africa asking for his help and in a couple of days he is back on the continent to which he never wanted to return.I got off the train when I reached my coastal destination, took a cab to the hotel and instead of going to the beach, I continued to read in the bedroom. I simply could not put the book down. Garrett is the ultimate hero. There are other heroes in the story. Dear little orphaned ten year Vusi, looking after his younger sister in the Zulu squatter camp outside Joburg. Petrus the Zulu guard, his bravery a match for Garrett. Manon, the beautiful Nun who has given her life to caring for the orphaned children in her care.The story is fast moving, intensely exciting, very brutal at times but also very satisfying. I would love to see this book on screen. I hope C. Marten-Zerf has more of the same in the pipe line.