Wake Up Dead, Roger Smith
Wake Up Dead, Roger Smith
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Wake Up Dead
A Thriller

Author: Roger Smith

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Unabridged: 8 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/08/2010

Synopsis

A split-second decision with no second chance: get it wrong and you wake up dead.

On a blowtorch-hot night in Cape Town, American ex-model Roxy Palmer and her gunrunner husband, Joe, are carjacked, leaving Joe lying in a pool of blood. As the carjackers make their getaway, Roxy makes a fateful choice that changes her life forever.

Disco and Godwynn, the ghetto gangbangers who sped away in Joe's convertible, will stop at nothing to track her down. Billy Afrika, a mixed-race ex-cop turned mercenary, won't let her out of his sight because Joe owed him a chunk of money. And remorselessly hunting them all is Piper, a love-crazed psychopath determined to renew his vows with his jailhouse "wife," Disco.

As these desperate lives collide and old debts are settled in blood, Roxy is caught in a wave of escalating violence in the beautiful and brutal African seaport. With savage plotting and breakneck suspense that ends in a shattering cataclysm of violence, Wake Up Dead confirms Roger Smith as one of the world's best new thriller writers.

About Roger Smith

Roger Smith was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and now lives in Cape Town. A motion picture version of his acclaimed debut thriller, Mixed Blood, starring Samuel L. Jackson, is in the works.

Reviews

Goodreads review by SoRoLi (Sonja) ♡ on June 10, 2021

Roxy und ihr Mann Joe werden überfallen. Joe wird angeschossen; die Täter fliehen mit dem geklauten Mercedes. Die Waffe bleibt am Tatort zurück, und kurzerhand erschießt Roxy ihren Mann. Damit beginnt die Geschichte und zieht eine ganze Reihe weiterer Morde und Gewalt nach sich. Das Buch ist spannen......more

Goodreads review by Richard on February 14, 2021

This author is known for being uncompromising when it comes to violence and brutality, but this book is Smith at his most savage. As usual, his Cape Town is a Grand Guignol stage of crime and violence, and this time, he focuses on a relatively simple but tragic carjacking, and the large cast of char......more

Goodreads review by Skip on August 27, 2015

I was thrilled to find another South African crime writer, but found the violence is this book to be excessive. The book opens with a carjacking in Cape Town where the arms dealer husband of American Roxy Palmer dies and the gangbanger perpetrators (Disco and Godwynn), take center stage. Meanwhile,......more

Goodreads review by Amelia on August 24, 2016

I can't believe I haven't heard of Roger Smith before, especially since he is a South African author. Wake Up Dead is a fast-paced thriller with lots of action: it starts with a bang and the suspense builds right up until the cataclysmic end. I liked the characters and found myself rooting for the p......more

Goodreads review by Mack on October 12, 2009

This review is based on an ARC of Wake Up Dead by Roger Smith, (the author of Mixed Blood). Wake Up Dead will be published by Henry Holt & Co in February 2010. Roger lives in Cape Town, South Africa. His web site is Roger Smith Books Links to sources that show the environment in which Wake Up Dead is......more

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