THE ARCHITECT'S SHADOW
Dark Justice: A South African Crime Series — Book 18 of 24

When a journalist turns up dead in his Sandton flat — eyes gouged, teeth removed, and an encrypted flash drive hidden inside a wall speaker — detectives Thandi Mokoena and Adam Barnard are called in to clean up the mess quietly. The victim? A conspiracy blogger who had claimed to uncover "the architect of the Circle."

The drive contains more than just theories — it holds surveillance photos, redacted files, and a map of dead men. Men once thought to be untouchable. Judges. Generals. Ministers. All connected through silent payouts and decades-old war crime records. At the center of the web: a single codename used repeatedly across different eras — The Architect.

As the detectives chase ghosts through old government bunkers, luxury boardrooms, and exile-era safehouses, they begin to piece together a terrifying truth: The Circle didn't evolve randomly. It was designed — from ideology to infrastructure — and the person behind it has always remained one move ahead.

Now, that shadow is watching them.

The Architect's Shadow is a chilling political thriller about power that outlives regimes, secrets that rewrite history, and the minds that operate in silence while others take the fall.

You can't kill what doesn't exist on paper. And you can't expose what was never meant to be remembered.