Suspense fiction. Detective and mystery stories. An antiques dealer is burned with a blowtorch and executed with a single shot to the back of the head. The only clues at the scene are a scrap of paper and an unusual choice of gun. Ex-cop Zatopek 'Zed' van Heerden has just seven days to solve the case, an almost impossible task made even harder when he discovers that, until a few years ago, there was no proof that the victim even existed
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This translation originally published: London: Coronet, 2000
Originally published in Afrikaans in 2000 as Orion by Human & Rousseau
