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| Palm Stalker by Rocco Bergh Penguin Books 513 pages, 2000 ISBN 0140279873 Reviewed by our South African Editor, Merilyn Tomkins adams.west@saol.com - Adams Bookshop, Durban, SA A South African naval architect, Robert Arquette, makes an impulsive decision to return to Zululand, place of his birth. His intention is to find the eccentric recluse who gave him a home for the first four years of his life and to learn more about his lonely existence in the coastal dune forest. Instead, he finds himself involved in a mystery that takes on dramatic proportions. As he is drawn into a confrontation with ruthless and desperate mercenaries, driven by the lure of treasure, Robert Arquette realises that his life has changed forever. One of the enduring mysteries in South Africa surrounds the Kruger Millions. According to legend, President Paul Kruger stock-piled gold bars and other treasure to finance the imminent Anglo-Boer War at the turn of the Nineteenth century. A secret syndicate of men whose fathers and grandfathers left secret letters and documents to their descendants, try by fair means and foul play to regain the lost sunken treasure off the Zululand coast - the famous Kruger Millions. I now share Penguin's excitement over this new author and his first novel - which is brilliant. |
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