9. GERM OF DEATH — WANDERER DETECTIVE SERIES
Obed de Swardt, eccentric millionaire, former rugby star, and brilliant private detective, is bored. His tranquil life at Drie Gewels is shattered, however, when a newspaper report about a series of gruesome sex murders captures his attention. A mysterious call from a desperate woman lures him deeper into the case, but instead of answers, he finds himself in the midst of a deadly ambush.
Overnight, the hunter becomes the prey. Accused of a murder he did not commit, with his fingerprints on the murder weapon, he becomes South Africa’s most wanted fugitive. But the police are the least of his problems. A merciless, international espionage ring, led by an ice-cold and seductive woman with a personal vendetta against him, has him in their sights. They are holding hostage the one thing precious to him, his beloved Tessa. She is being held in a diabolical trap where one wrong move means her immediate death. To save her life, Obed is forced to perform an impossible task. He must steal a deadly biological secret, “the germ of death,” and eliminate three of the country’s most influential people, including a cabinet minister.
With his every move monitored by the syndicate’s hardened agents, Obed must test his ingenuity to the absolute limit. He must evade the police while carrying out the spies’ orders. In a spectacular initiation by fire, he orchestrates a car accident to feign the death of one of his targets, thus ridding himself of one of his watchdogs. But with every clever move, his enemies only grow more suspicious, and the noose around his neck, and around Tessa’s, draws ever tighter. Caught between the law, which seeks him as a murderer, and an enemy that knows no mercy, Obed’s time and options are rapidly running out. He is left with only one last, desperate chance. But can he achieve the impossible when a single small mistake will not only cost him his own life but also seal the fate of the woman he loves?
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