By Wilbur A. Smith
North of Johannesburg, 5 businesses proportion the Kitchenerville fields, furiously blasting and digging deep into the earth. For a few males, gold mining is a manner of life—and loss of life. For a few it's only a enterprise. For one guy, it's the main risky online game of all...
Rod Ironsides makes like to his boss's spouse and drives his miners quicker and more durable than someone has ever dared. a couple of weeks in the past, Ironsides had a keenness for golfing and one-night stands. Now, he has been passed a prize and a curse: to blast via rock and obtain a fortune—or be destroyed.
From a split-second, oxygen-sucking explosion to a looming underground wall of water, there are a dozen methods Rod can fail. yet his ardour and fury won't enable him backtrack from a conspiracy he can't see: males who are looking to flip his mine right into a dying trap—for the bloodiest pay-day of all...
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