{"product_id":"9781910633687-reconciliation-for-the-dead","title":"Reconciliation for the Dead","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVigilante justice-seeker Claymore Straker returns to South Africa to testify to Desmond Tutu’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, recounting the horrifying events that led to his exile, years earlier … The addictive, thought-provoking, searingly emotive next instalment in the critically acclaimed Claymore Straker series…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVigilante justice-seeker Claymore Straker returns to South Africa to testify to Desmond Tutu’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, recounting the horrifying events that led to his exile, years earlier … The addictive, thought-provoking, searingly emotive next instalment in the critically acclaimed Claymore Straker series…\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A gripping, page-turning thriller that is overflowing with substance to go along with Hardisty’s atmospheric prose and strong narrative style’ \u003cb\u003eCraig Sisterson, \u003ci\u003eMystery Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A solid, meaty thriller – Hardisty is a fine writer and Straker is a great lead character’ \u003cb\u003eLee Child\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘The author’s deep knowledge of the settings never slows down the non-stop action, with distant echoes of a more moral-minded Jack Reacher or Jason Bourne’ \u003cb\u003eMaxim Jakubowski\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e____________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFresh from events in Yemen and Cyprus, vigilante justice-seeker Claymore Straker returns to South Africa, seeking absolution for the sins of his past. Over four days, he testifies to Desmond Tutu’s newly established Truth and Reconciliation Commission, recounting the shattering events that led to his dishonourable discharge and exile, fifteen years earlier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was 1980. The height of the Cold War. Clay is a young paratrooper in the South African Army, fighting in Angola against the Communist insurgency that threatens to topple the White Apartheid regime. On a patrol deep inside Angola, Clay, and his best friend, Eben Barstow, find themselves enmeshed in a tangled conspiracy that threatens everything they have been taught to believe about war, and the sacrifices that they, and their brothers in arms, are expected to make. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWitness and unwitting accomplice to an act of shocking brutality, Clay changes allegiance and finds himself labelled a deserter and accused of high treason, setting him on a journey into the dark, twisted heart of institutionalised hatred, from which no one will emerge unscathed…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExploring true events from one of the most hateful chapters in South African history, \u003ci\u003eReconciliation for the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e is a shocking, explosive and gripping thriller from one finest writers in contemporary crime fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e____________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Paul E. Hardisty\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is a remarkably well-written, sophisticated novel in which the people and places, as well as frequent scenes of violent action, all come alive on the page.’ \u003cb\u003eJessica Mann, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A trenchant and engaging thriller that unravels this mysterious land in cool, precise sentences’ \u003cb\u003eStav Sherez, \u003ci\u003eCatholic Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Laces the thrills and spills with enough moral indignation to give the book heft … excellent’ \u003cb\u003eJake Kerridge, \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A thriller of the highest quality, with the potential to one day stand in the company of such luminaries as Bond and Bourne’ \u003cb\u003eLive Many Lives\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A big, powerful, sophisticated and page-turning thriller – thought-provoking and prescient' \u003cb\u003eEve Seymour\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The writing at times is poetic, at other times filled with tension in a narrative complete with well delineated characters and several shocks. 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