Book information
ISBN: 978-0-9870347-6-2
Trim size: 230 x 150mm
Binding: paperback
Page count: 308 pages
Imagery: Black & white photographs
Cost: R325.00
Genre: Crime Thriller
Date of publication: May 2013
Description
A young man arrives in Jo’burg from a village in northern Mozambique and is conscripted into one of the city’s oldest organised crime syndicates.
Joao Mucavinho soon learns who really runs this bad city: who controls the money, the
The city is on the brink of monumental changes: it is about to explode – and with it all the dreams, the lies and the power of the old order.
It is a time of violent death, of survival, and an opportunity that only comes once.
Bad City is an African novel that is
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Peter Morris
Peter Morris lived for most of his life in inner-city Johannesburg. In South Africa, he worked as a producer and writer in the film industry; as a teacher in various institutions, and as a commercial traveller in the optical industry. He lives with his family in Portugal where he works as a teacher and academic translator.