Crackerjack

The first book in Peter Church's Dark Web Trilogy When a sexy engineer hires a reformed hacker in Cape Town to help solve her boss's disappearance, the hunt quickly becomes deadly. Young, bright and sexy, Carla Vitale has been handpicked to run Supertech, Africas leading independent Engineering firm. Then one Friday afternoon in Cape Town, her dream is shattered. Her boss and mentor, Nial Townley, disappears, his luxury vehicle is found in a crevice at the bottom of Chapmans Peak and $USD 20m is missing from the Supertechs overseas accounts. Three months later and the police are no closer to solving the riddle. No job, no car, no phone, Carla turns to the one person she believes can help: software hacker turned day-trader, Daniel Le Fleur. But Le Fleurs maintaining a low profile in Bantry Bay and hes in no mood to ruin the serendipity. After a successful career in Information Technology, Peter Churchs first crime novel, Dark Video, was published in South Africa and Australia in 2008. He has since published Bitter Pill, a crime thriller, and Blue Cow Sky, a novella of sexual proportions, both in South Africa. Church is a member of SA PEN. He lives in Cape Town with his wife, the artist Paula Church, and three children. Crackerjack is his debut in North America.