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HE FALLS FIRST
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Fresh Fiction for August Is Here

Cowboys, castles, and shiftersβ€”this month has it all.

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Hotter than a Tuscan summer.


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Some promises cost you the one you love.


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Only she can pull him back from the darkness.


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One golden retriever knows this is love.


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Trust is the fiercest transformation of all.


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From Himalayan stargazing to the London Blitzβ€”one love endures.

The Serpentine Road by Paul Mendelson

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Also by Paul Mendelson:

The History of Blood, July 2018
Paperback / e-Book
The Serpentine Road, June 2018
Paperback / e-Book
Apostle Lodge, April 2018
Paperback / e-Book
The Serpentine Road, April 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
The First Rule Of Survival, April 2014
e-Book

THE SERPENTINE ROAD
By: Paul Mendelson


Vaughn deVries 2
Constable & Robinson Limited
April 2015
On Sale: April 2, 2015
Featuring: Don February; Vaughn deVries
222 pages
ISBN: 1472119479
EAN: 9781472119476
Kindle: B00T6L14AY
Hardcover / e-Book
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Thriller Police Procedural

Even after the release of Nelson Mandela and the promise of free elections, extremist groups terrorized South Africa, bombing churches, opening fire in bars and restaurants. Nearly twenty-five years ago, as a young Captain, Vaughn de Vries finds himself in pursuit of the suspects of a fatal bombing in his precinct, under the command of one of the most feared white police officers of the time: Major Kobus Nel. Out of radio communication and without clear evidence, the SAPS barge into a township and set off a chain of events which will resonate for a quarter of a century.

In Cape Town in 2015, the heiress of an Apartheid-era industrialist is found murdered, her body posed to suggest a racial hate crime. But, as Colonel Vaughn De Vries investigates, possible motives for her death abound: a highly controversial art exhibition, her sexual preferences, her relationship - as yet unknown by the press - with the son of one of the heroes of The Struggle.

And, moving South down through the country, North to South, five men are murdered, each with a connection to a point in history De Vries would sooner forget. When the link is made, De Vries must re-live the traumatic event to uncover the perpetrator. Old wounds, hidden in history, are exposed, and a mysterious killer approaches, whom no one seems able to stop.

Vaughn deVries

The First Rule Of Survival
THE FIRST RULE OF SURVIVAL
#1.0 β€’ April 2014
The Serpentine Road
THE SERPENTINE ROAD
#2.0 β€’ April 2015

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