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Reluctant bank robber Jack Burn is on the run after a heist in the U.S. that left three million dollars missing and one cop dead. Hiding out in Cape Town, he is desperate to build a new life for his pregnant wife and young son. But on a tranquil evening in their new suburban neighborhood they are the victims of a random gangland assault that changes everything.
Benny Mongrel, an ex-con night watchman guarding a building site next to Burn's home, is another man desperate to escape his past. After years in the ghetto gangs of Cape Town he knows who went into Burn's house. And what the American did to them. He also knows his only chance to save his tattooed brown skin is to forget what he saw.
Burn’s actions on that night trap them both in a cat-and-mouse game with Rudi “Gatsby” Barnard—a corrupt Afrikaner cop who loves killing almost as much as he loves Jesus Christ—and Disaster Zondi, a Zulu detective who has a history with Barnard and wants blood more than justice. The four men are drawn into a spiral of torture, murder and payback during a heat wave in Cape Town that leaves the city burning.
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