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Mixed Blood: A Thriller - Community Reviews back

by Roger Smith
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Toni
Toni rated it 11 years ago
Book 1, in the Cape Town series This fantastic story almost impossible to put down recounts how, why and what happened to Jack Burns, an American who relocated to Cape Town, South Africa with his family. Blackmailed into participating in a bank heist that went terribly wrong in his home town o...
Another fine mess
Another fine mess rated it 15 years ago
I read both of Smith's first two novels (including #2 Wake Up Dead) in one fell swoop, part of a larger project I'm fiddling around, trying to see if/how it might develop. (If you're interested...I'm interested in the explosion of South African crime fiction since '94... what, how, why, who. Other ...
Another fine mess
Another fine mess rated it 15 years ago
Review to come.
sandin954
sandin954 rated it 15 years ago
Debut thriller set in South Africa. Parts of this were very well done. I found the descriptions of the poverty and hopelessness of characters who lived in the poorer Cape Flats area of Cape Town completely convincing. On the other hand, the bad guy was too over the top for me and the main charact...
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