A dark winter’s evening. A lonely smallholding outside Johannesburg. A brutal shooting. The murder of solitary divorcee Annette Botha appears to be a botched hijacking, just another senseless crime in the surge of violence sweeping South Africa. Police superintendent David Patel investigates, with ex-boss's daughter Jade de Jong along for the ride. Newly returned to South Africa, Jade soon makes some troubling discoveries. Why did Annette hire a private detective a few days before she died? And why has the detective mysteriously disappeared? Meanwhle, Jade has plans of her own. The man who killed her father has just been released from prison, and he is in for a nasty shock. A betrayel sends her carefully-laid plans awry, and Annette Botha's murderer remains one step ahead. He's planning his final coup, and this time, there will be no witnesses...