Does It Hurt To Die

by Paul Anderson

Two weeks after a terrorist attack in Cape Town seriously injures him, Dr. Jannie de Villiers is viciously murdered. Sixteen years later, Dr de Viliers’ son, Christian de Villiers, returns to Cape Town to investigate the strange circumstances of his father’s death. Little does he know that what he is about to discover will send shock waves through his system and potentially alter the world of genetic research.Christian finds a folder that reveals his father was entangled in a secret genetic research operation that involved biological and germ warfare to control the coloured population, and was trying to hide this information from falling into the wrong hands. The folder implicates powerful spy agencies and names of global powers who were embarrassingly involved in this programme. As the embarrassing contents of the folder are leaked, Christian and his wife are kidnapped by a radical, powerful Afrikaner group who threatens death if the final cryptic clue to his father’s research isn’t supplied.

Holding the key to what could be unrivaled white supremacy, Christian’s mother must wrestle with supplying the information or risk losing more people she loves.

“Taking place in post-apartheid South Africa, this book is full of historical fiction. The details are amazing and the author really painted a great picture of the setting and the struggle in South Africa. I could imagine the shanty towns and the hawkers. Wonderful imagery…”

“From the moment you pick up this book you won’t want to put it down. Up there with the very best books I have read! Full of suspense with a great twist.”‘

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