Strike of the Black Mamba
The novel is an international crime thriller dealing with the ingenious theft of nuclear material and the bloodcurdling use thereof.
The unthinkable has happened. An environmental organization warned the
world against it. Still, nobody believed that it would turn out like
this. But Donald Morse proves everyone wrong. Defying all security
measures, he manages to steal a shipment of nuclear material from a
cargo ship destined for Japan’s nuclear power reactors. Could anything
be worse than this scenario? Perhaps the fact that Donald Morse knows
that South African scientists developed extremely dangerous nuclear
weapons during the apartheid years, weapons that the world thought
were not possible to construct.
Donald has information where these deadly weapons are hidden - and
he has plans to get them out. Ken Palmer is sent by the FBI to
find Donald Morse and to arrest him. To complicate matters, Donald keeps
Ken's ex-girlfriend, Karen Visser, a television journalist, as a hostage.
Ken finds an unexpected ally in the form of Mandla Dladla, an out-of-work local journalist, but Ken still has to deal with
traitors from within as well as onslaughts on his life. He eventually discovers the real spine-chilling reason for Donald’s need for
the nuclear weapons and he realizes that Donald has to be stopped
in any way possible.