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Joburg Zen
Paperback
Series: Alex Lago Dying City, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $23.95
ISBN13: 9781685138004
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
Published: Oct 1 2026
Pages: 402
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The past never dies in Johannesburg. It just waits for you to come back.
Journalist Alex Lago once knew how to survive Joburg's secrets, spies, and violence. He got out decades ago. And stayed gone.
Now he's drawn back by a new project-uncovering what really happened to Bobby Locke, the legendary golfer who clawed his way out of the city's gutters to achieve global stardom, only to lose it all and vanish into obscurity in a cottage called Sandwich.
Half a century later, Locke resurfaces in international headlines for a final, unspeakable act.
As Lago traces Locke's life and the legacy he left behind, the dangers of his own past close in-a savage murder erased by political chaos, an apartheid-era cop hunting closure, and a beautiful woman lost to a single night that shattered everything.
Based on true events and moving from the sun-drenched fairways of the 1950s to the riot-lit streets of the 1990s, Joburg Zen is an unnerving, suffocating thriller about memory, complicity, and the stories men tell themselves to survive the past.
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