Lawyer Ian Brand sends out a tweet that changes his life irrevocably. Thuli Khumalo, Fallist leader, must choose between betraying her father and forsaking her principles. Snaar Windvogel, once the little violin girl of Matjiesfontein, is now in transition under the knife of Piekenier Leqluerck, plastic surgeon and fossa impresario. And all the while the Mother City's mysterious crossbow killer is poised to strike again . . . An astonishing novel focusing on our dangerous, turbulent times.