Tollie Erasmus, an unsavory bank robber on the run, is hung from the neck until dead. Unfortunately, the execution was administered without the benefit of a South African judge or jury. Somewhere there's a killer who knows far too much about the hangman's craft, and Lieutenant Tromp Kramer and his Bantu assistant, Mickey Zondi, must find him before his trail of death continues.
"Crossley…enlivens the narrative with strong dialect work…This powerful procedural provides a startling thirty five year old snapshot of the strange world of apartheid."
