In the dunes a killer buries the bodies of street kids.Along the coast the abalone wars erupt in murder andfirefights as gangs and syndicates battle for the Capeaphrodisiac so prized in the East. The profits are huge,the cost is counted in corpses.Mullet Mendes, ex-cop turned private investigator,and his partner Vincent Saldana are sweating: Mullet'stailing a financial whiz soliciting rent boys, Vincent'safter a gang heisting cultivated abalone.Soon they're embroiled in violence and duplicity astheir cases unravel. Their lives are at stake. But who ispulling the strings?With this fast and gritty crime thriller Mike Nicol andJoanne Hichens bring the hard-boiled PI to CapeTown.