The Serpentine Road

Even after the release of Nelson Mandela and the promise of free
elections, extremist groups terrorized South Africa, bombing churches,
opening fire in bars and restaurants. Nearly twenty-five years ago, as a
young Captain, Vaughn de Vries finds himself in pursuit of the suspects
of a fatal bombing in his precinct, under the command of one of the
most feared white police officers of the time: Major Kobus Nel. Out of
radio communication and without clear evidence, the SAPS barge into a
township and set off a chain of events which will resonate for a quarter
of a century. In Cape Town in 2015, the heiress of an
Apartheid-era industrialist is found murdered, her body posed to suggest
a racial hate crime. But, as Colonel Vaughn De Vries investigates,
possible motives for her death abound: a highly controversial art
exhibition, her sexual preferences, her relationship - as yet unknown by
the press - with the son of one of the heroes of The Struggle.
And, moving South down through the country, North to South, five men
are murdered, each with a connection to a point in history De Vries
would sooner forget. When the link is made, De Vries must re-live the
traumatic event to uncover the perpetrator. Old wounds, hidden in
history, are exposed, and a mysterious killer approaches, whom no one
seems able to stop.