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Crackerjack
9781946395115
The first book in Peter Church's Dark Web Trilogy
When a sexy engineer hires a reformed hacker in Cape Town to help solve her boss's disappearance, the hunt quickly becomes deadly.
Young, bright and sexy, Carla Vitale has been handpicked to run Supertech, Africa’s leading independent Engineering firm. Then one Friday afternoon in Cape Town, her dream is shattered. Her boss and mentor, Nial Townley, disappears, his luxury vehicle is found in a crevice at the bottom of Chapman’s Peak and $USD 20m is missing from the Supertech’s overseas accounts. Three months later and the police are no closer to solving the riddle.
No job, no car, no phone, Carla turns to the one person she believes can help: software hacker turned day-trader, Daniel Le Fleur. But Le Fleur’s maintaining a low profile in Bantry Bay and he’s in no mood to ruin the serendipity.
After a successful career in Information Technology, Peter Church’s first crime novel, Dark Video, was published in South Africa and Australia in 2008. He has since published Bitter Pill, a crime thriller, and Blue Cow Sky, “a novella of sexual proportions,” both in South Africa. Church is a member of SA PEN. He lives in Cape Town with his wife, the artist Paula Church, and three children. Crackerjack is his debut in North America.
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Pub Date:
Feb. 2019
Praise For:
Crackerjack
"[T]his impressively original and deftly crafted paperback will prove to be an immediate and enduringly popular addition to community library collections and the personal reading list." — Midwest Book Review
"Church’s characters are strong and believable, and the plot keeps the pages turning." — Michael Sears, New York Journal of Books
“[A] rough-edged page-turner in a similar pacy vein to the thrillers of best-selling author Deon Meyer, and fellow Afrikaans writer Irma Venter.”” —The Herald (South Africa)
"Crime writing at its best" —Cosmopolitan, South African edition
"Crackerjack is exactly that, it sizzles and buzzes from the start." —Sunday Times (South Africa)
“Crackerjack is a smart, cleverly plotted thriller that takes readers into the darker corners of the digital world. South African novelist Peter Church has created a great protagonist in hacker/day trader Daniel Le Fleur.” – James Lilliefors, author of The Leviathan Effect and The Psalmist
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Author: Peter Church is a South African fiction novelist renowned for the dark and racy nature of his writing. His debut novel, Dark Video, was published by Random House in South Africa and Australia in 2008, and delved into a sordid world of online video sharing. The was followed up in 2011 with Bitter Pill, a thriller dealing with the scourge of drink spiking on the local club scene. Bitter Pill was long listed for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize in the same year. Church lives in Cape Town with his wife, the artist Paula Church, and three children. He is a member of SA’s PEN association of writers and his short stories have been published in a number of local anthologies. His latest novel, Crackerjack, is due for release in January 2019 and will be his North American debut.