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A CARRION DEATH
by
Michael Stanley


This impressive debut from Stanley, the South African writing team of Michael Sears and
Stanley Trollip, introduces overweight assistant
superintendent David Bengu of the Botswana Police Department, whose nickname is,
fittingly, Kubu (Setswanan for hippopotamus). In investigating the case
of a partially consumed human body found in a remote area of a game reserve, Kubu keeps
running across tangential links to Botswana Cattle and Mining,
the country's largest company. As more people connected to the case turn up dead, Kubu
realizes that multiple murder may be just the byproduct of a much
more heinous crime. The intricate plotting, a grisly sense of realism and numerous topical
motifs (the plight of the Kalahari Bushmen, diamond smuggling,
poaching, the homogenization of African culture, etc.) make this a compulsively readable
novel.



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Copyright й 2008 Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip
Published by arrangement with HarperCollins Publishers

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First published in Great Britain in 2008 by
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ISBN 978 0 7553 4404 8 (Hardback)
ISBN 978 0 7553 4405 5 (Trade paperback)

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