PPenCon 2009 - Poisoned Pen's Virtual Mystery Conference

Roger Smith	author website

Roger says: I was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and now live in Cape Town. My first thriller, MIXED BLOOD was published in the U.S.A. in 2009 by Henry Holt & Co. My second,WAKE UP DEAD, will be published in 2010. Both books have been bought by publishers in the U.K., Germany and Japan. GreeneStreet Films(NYC) has optioned the movie rights to MIXED BLOOD.
MIXED BLOOD: A THRILLER 978-0805088755 An American, hiding out in Cape Town, South Africa, after being blackmailed into a bank heist back home, is building a new life for his pregnant wife and young son, when an incident of random violence sets him on a collision course with street gangs and a rogue cop who loves killing almost as much as he loves Jesus Christ.	Buy now with Paypal
WAKE UP DEAD: A THRILLER An amphetamine-fueled thriller about an American widow on the run in Cape Town's violent badlands. On a blowtorch-hot night, 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.
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