num_pages: 304
description: An amphetamine-fueled thriller about a bombshell American widow on the run in Cape Towns violent badlandsfrom a writer being compared to George Pelecanos and Richard PriceA 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 Joes convertible will stop at nothing to track her down. Billy Afrika a mixed-race ex-cop turned mercenary wont 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 worlds best new thriller writers.
language: English
title: Wake Up Dead
publisher: Henry Holt and Co.