Book: The Payback
Author: Simon Kernick
Publisher: Random House Struik
Tina is a maverick cop and the chances she takes and the corners she cuts during her investigations often get her into hot water with her superiors. Her unorthodox style means she also takes more than the usual flak from the criminals she sets out to catch.
When a colleague calls to tell Tina that her journalist ex-lover has committted suicide, the alarm bells go off. Tina knows that he was chasing a hot lead on an arch criminal known as Theunissen.
The lead comes from another journalist in Manila and when Tina follows the trail, someone tries to kill her. She sets out to get to the bottom of the story.
Enter ex-cop turned assassin Wise, who is sent on one final hit by his master. No guessing that Tina is it. It makes for obsessive edge-of-the-seat reading.