THE TIDE'S CUT
Dark Justice: A South African Crime Series — Book 20 of 24

A fishing trawler drifts ashore near Gqeberha with no crew aboard — just bloodstains on the deck, a Circle insignia burned into the wheel, and a cargo hold filled with sealed medical coolers. Inside: harvested organs, mismatched IDs, and one half-dead survivor chained to a floor grate.

Detectives Thandi Mokoena and Adam Barnard are pulled into a case with international implications — a maritime smuggling operation running human cargo along South Africa's coastlines under the radar of every customs patrol. But this isn't just black-market organ trade. This is logistics at scale. Systemic. Financed. Protected.

As the trail leads them to an abandoned naval depot and a dormant transshipment hub, Thandi and Adam begin connecting dots between military retirees, ghost fishing licenses, and medical procurement fronts linked to offshore insurance fraud. The Circle isn't just selling silence anymore. It's exporting it.

But when a key informant is found drowned with her lips sewn shut, the message is clear: stay out of the water.

The Tide's Cut is a harrowing maritime thriller about extraction, complicity, and the lives discarded to keep powerful systems afloat.

The current is moving fast. And this time, justice might not reach the shore.