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Last Train to Retreat by Preller, Gustav is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Last Train to Retreat about?
Zane Hendricks boards a train one winter night in Cape Town, and what should be a 24 minute ride home from the advertising agency where he works becomes a journey of terror.Some years earlier Zane crossed the railway line from his birthplace on the Cape Flats to a better life, but his murky past catches up with him forcing him to confront what he's been avoiding all of his young life - himself.Lena Valentine, having suffered abuse in her early teens, lacks self-esteem to the point of self-hatred. On the first night of the FIFA World Cup in Cape Town her simmering rage boils over when she tries to save an exotic, beautiful Thai girl from a gang of human traffickers, and what starts off as a mission of mercy ends in disaster.Hannibal Fortuin, leader of the Evangelicals gang, has declared God dead and embraced crime kingpin Jerome Sasman, aka the Gnome. But the Gnome disappoints him too. Twists and turns of fate bring Zane into Hannibal's sights once more, and Hannibal's obsession with revenge reaches new heights.Last Train to Retreat is a gritty thriller about a young man's courage and love in the face of irredeemable evil, set against a backdrop of a dystopian Cape Flats and its Col
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Preller, Gustav
- Publisher
- Gustav Preller
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
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