PI Fish Pescado and Vicki Kahn Books

'Compelling . . . Nicol's Cape Town is cool, dangerous, full of humour, and very far from its touristy image'THE TIMESPI Fish Pescado is surfing. To Fish this is paradise. Except, he has no work, and less money. a job. Find the murderous bastard who wiped out a bystander at an illegal drag race.Thing is the drag racer turns out to have powerful connections -- right to the police commissioner. Thing is the commissioner has his eye on Fish's girlfriend Vicky, the best woman he's ever had. Thing is the commissioner has a nasty past. A past that has to do with the bad old days and hit squads and the kind of information that no one in the new rainbow nation wants uncovered. The commissioner's also got a taste for the lush life. A taste that is ruthless, savage.

BERLIN. Agent Vicki Kahn is on her first foreign mission for the South African government, on the trail of an international child-trafficker. A complication she doesn't need is that the President's son is somewhere in the mix. When Vicki finds her contact on the kitchen floor with a hole in the head, all her instincts tell her to get out. But her handlers have her on a tight leash, and getting out is not an option. CAPE TOWN. A rebel colonel from the Central African Republic is taken down in a spray of bullets on the steps of the city's oldest cathedral. Next day, Vicki's surfer boyfriend, PI 'Fish' Pescado, picks up a new brief. Find out who killed my husband. Even if it was the President. A brief like that, Fish knows he should say no. Only saying no isn't his strong point. BAMBATHA PALACE, NATAL. The President is giving a party to celebrate his latest marriage. The great, the good and the not-so-good of the rainbow nation are all there. Also present are Agent Kahn and PI Pescado. The players are assembled. Now it's show-time.

First there is the killing of the minister of energy. Then the cop investigating the murder commits suicide. Fearing a conspiracy, the minister’s lover hires pi Fish Pescado to find the killer. Then she goes missing. And Fish is being stonewalled by the cops because … … in the dark shadows of Cape Town there’s another game being played out. A complex one involving Iranian agents, the theft of highly enriched uranium, and the kidnapping of a top scientist. Ex-spy Vicki Kahn is bribed by her former handler to track the terrorists. The hunt is deadly and nothing is what it seems. A sleeper has been awoken. isis is involved. So is the cia. There is chatter of a dirty bomb headed for Europe. And Vicki is so lost in those constantly changing shadows that even her surfer-boy Fish can’t find her.