Reconciliation for the Dead by Paul E. Hardisty, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2017

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2017 …

Reconciliation for the Dead by Paul E. Hardisty, A Claymore Straker Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Orenda Books

  

Fresh from events in Yemen and Cyprus, vigilante justice-seeker Claymore Straker returns to South Africa, seeking absolution for the sins of his past. Over four days, he testifies to Desmond Tutu's newly established Truth and Reconciliation Commission, recounting the shattering events that led to his dishonorable discharge and exile, 15 years earlier.

It was 1980. The height of the Cold War. Clay is a young paratrooper in the South African Army, fighting in Angola against the Communist insurgency that threatens to topple the White Apartheid regime. On a patrol deep inside Angola, Clay, and his best friend, Eben Barstow, find themselves enmeshed in a tangled conspiracy that threatens everything they have been taught to believe about war, and the sacrifices that they, and their brothers in arms, are expected to make. Witness and unwitting accomplice to an act of shocking brutality, Clay changes allegiance and finds himself labelled a deserter and accused of high treason, setting him on a journey into the dark, twisted heart of institutionalized hatred, from which no one will emerge unscathed.

— Reconciliation for the Dead by Paul E. Hardisty

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for October 2017. For new hardcover titles, visit New Mysteries where for a list of October 2017 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.