Jacques Bekker's plane is delayed, giving him four unexpected hours in Sydney. So, following and impulse, he decides to look up an old girlfriend - his first love. She is still located at the same address. When he arrives on Monique's street a stylish woman is loading a last suitcase into the back of a smart car. Thirty years vanish in the blink of an eye and before Jacques knows it he's become an accomplice to a disappearing act that will soon be front page news. But by then Jacques and Monique will be deep in the Australian outback and well on the way to the treacherous heart of their teenage past. This suspense road novel will put you at the edge of your chair as your reading goes and will demonstrate that Krabbe’ is still giving us compelling stories as in “The Vanishing”. This is an ideal novel for traveling or a wet lazy weekend.
Krabbé, Tim. Delay, London : Bloomsbury, 2005.
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