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TOOTH AND NAILED
Fiction (Crime)
Penguin (SA) - July 2010
Georgie Allen – Cape Town’s most down-at-heel lawyer – is back, and this time he’s ... Well, actually, he’s doing just fine. That is if fine can be classified as taking on a case for a promiscuous professor who may or may not have murdered one of his students, dealing with South Africa’s first gay divorce, and coping with feelings of inadequacy thanks to the hotshot attorney he’s hired to pick up the slack at his office. When Georgie receives a panicked call from his brother Greg, a game ranger, his messy love life and even messier practice are put into perspective - a twelve-year-old child has been blinded in a horrific hyena attack, and the victim’s parents are accusing Greg of negligence. With his brother’s career on the line, Georgie heads into the Botswanan bush to investigate, accompanied by his ever-present sidekick, feisty Scottish Advocate Patrick McLennan (aka the Poison Dwarf). While there, the twosome face adversaries even the Poison Dwarf finds hard to handle, and Georgie finds out that the courtroom isn’t the only place where his adversaries like to fight dirty.
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EXHIBIT A
Fiction (Crime) 263 pages
Penguin (SA) - May 2009
Meet Georgie Allen: Cape Town's self-proclaimed worst-dressed-lawyercum-used-car-dealer. Battling with nicotine and caffeine addiction, housemate worries and the revenge of the Witch, his vengeful ex-lover, the last thing he needs is to take on another pro-bono case. But when Rachel, a woman he meets in a bar asks him to help her sister Nina, who has accused a policeman of raping her in a police cell, he can't say no. Armed only with his irascible Scottish sidekick, Patrick and a renegade township mongrel named Exhibit A, the threesome head into the Karoo to investigate the case. From corrupt policemen to small-town discrimination and a local gossip grapevine, the scruffy but good-hearted Georgie battles his way through the reality of dealing with a rape case in the post-apartheid Rainbow Nation.
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