Timothy Keegan

Keegan’s work has an immense emotional appeal to his fellow country-men because of his prolific use of the familiar - local brands, local shops, and local foods - dear to the heart of South Africans saturated with foreign references.

Although it is set in 1999, the subsequent Leigh Matthews murder and Leisure net scandal brings immediacy to this saga of a multi-millionaire white-collar crook whose daughter is kidnapped.

Irreverent but comfortable and indigenous as an old veldskoen,
The book is a wry reflection of the Western Cape and, by extension, South Africa, making for an enjoyable although sardonic read.… (mehr)