Mike Nicol
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- 1951
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- Cape Town, South Africa
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- Cape Town, South Africa
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- Mike Nicol lebt als Autor, Journalist und Herausgeber in Kapstadt, wo er geboren wurde, und unterrichtet an der dortigen Universität. Er ist der preisgekrönte Autor international gefeierter Romane, Gedichtbände und Sachbücher, zuletzt einer autorisierten Biografie über Nelson Mandela, mit einem Vorwort von Kofi Annan. Vor einigen Jahren begann er sich intensiv für die südafrikanische Kriminalliteratur einzusetzen und beschloss, selbst Thriller zu schreiben. 1997 verbrachte er ein Jahr als Stipendiat des renommierten Berliner Künstlerprogramms in Deutschland, 2002 hatte er eine Gastprofessur als poet in residence an der Universität Essen inne.
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Most characters are emotionally rather stunted, and prefer hard, raw sex (all heterosexual, with stereotypical big titted beauties and BBCs, no worries!). Lots of people die a violent death and there is a clear distinction between ‘good and bad’ guys n girls.
The plot engages basically with a set of ‘gang lords turned businessmen’ called the Untouchables, whose illicit value-chain on abalone is taken over by a combination of ANC chefs and their government spooks and a group of Chinese businessmen. To facilitate the transition one of the three untouchables sells-out; one gang gets hired to do the dirty job (involving one Russian hired gun who keeps spraying bullets, but killing no one; and several gang members who engage in gang rapes, torture, bodily mutilation and public shoot-outs, testimony of which is provided by one hard-assed McDonald burger); and one government spook cleans up those who are somehow left behind and kills those in a clinical manner. So far for the baddies.
On the good cause side there is a 'deep throat' kinda person (the Voice) who runs an ‘invisible’ spook (Velaze) who bears witness and helps the reader unravel what is going on (and occasionally he also helps the real plot a bit) and there is Krista and Tami, who run a private security outfit.
I think this thriller writer is exceptional in the sense that he provides good insight into the psyche of a male, coloured, South African inhabitant of Cape Town both in lingo, mind-set, popular (masculine) culture and political views (the ANC government is rotten and sells-out SA’s assets to the Chinese). This thriller is heavily populated with coloured characters and a few black guys and girls (Tami, Gumede) and only one whitie (the unfortunate hired gun from Russia). That is refreshing compared with Deon Meyer, the other crime thriller writer who situates his stories in CPT but mainly operates in an environment populated by whites.… (mehr)