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The Shadow Of Dragon: Chronicles Of The High-Altitude Cartel
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Sibongiseni Masengemu
Published: Oct 7 2025
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Shadow of the Dragon: Chronicles Of The High-Altitude Cartel
In the mountains, life is measured in cattle. In the city, it's measured in complicity.
In the unforgiving high-altitude borderlands between South Africa and Lesotho, the price of survival is brutal. For young Molefi, the cost of medicine for his dying mother is a terrifying choice: join a ruthless cross-border Cartel or watch his family starve. He signs on for a high-stakes stock theft run, navigating the treacherous Drakensberg peaks under the command of the brilliant, merciless Tsietsi.
This is no ordinary heist. It is a corporate act of Organised Crime, complete with dedicated Transport, heavily-armed Security, and a deep network of political corruption, designed to move high-value animals from farm to fortune. The stolen goods are destined for the sleek offices of a Lesotho Tycoon, who uses complex money laundering to convert the brutal haul into legitimate, high-end assets.
When the Cartel takes his family's prized bull, Naledi, a farmer's daughter and seasoned game ranger, refuses to trust the compromised police. Armed with only her legendary tracking skill and a desire for personal vengeance, she crosses the border, entering the hostile terrain to hunt the men who ruined her father.
As Naledi's pursuit forces Tsietsi's network into a corner, Molefi is caught in the moral crosshairs: his mother's life or the potential blood on the snow. On this mountain, the hunter and the hunted are merely pawns in a much larger, darker game. The true war is not fought with rifles, but with the chilling arithmetic of Finance.
The journey ends on the mountain. The war for the system begins with the ledger.
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