The Dangers of Dying
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Last published Sun, Dec 6, 2015
For Damien Develesque the good times just keep on coming, he has everything a young South African on the cusp of adulthood could possibly want. His future seems set, and he is riding out his last days to graduation at a prestigious high school making the most of his encounters with love and the luxury and decadence afforded him by hard working parents.
As Damien discovers his best friend's parents slain, his serene and pampered youth comes to an abrupt end. From the glass mansions of Cape Town, as he starts to see his freedom bleed away, to the dunes of Namibia where he tastes his last morsels of innocent pleasure, on to the cosmopolitan cornucopias of Europe where he careens head-on with an unrelenting hunter, he is caught up in a rapturous struggle for survival. This struggle ignites the real man within.
The Dangers of Dying takes you on his journey as he is plunged into a consuming cauldron of corruption and to earn his freedom he must learn to conquer his omnipotent opponent because for Damien Develesque dying is just the beginning - fighting back is what makes him who he will become...
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