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"Roger Smith writes with the brutal beauty of an

Elmore Leonard in a very bad mood."  

CARY DARLING  – THE WASHINGTON  POST

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PRAISE FOR DUST DEVILS

"South Africa is the new wild-west, and Smith’s take-no-prisoners tours through the underworld just keep getting stronger -- like Dutch Leonard on the far end of a crank binge."

JEDIDIAH AYRES – BARNES & NOBLE  FAVORITE NOVELS 2011

"Smith has a unique ability to grab readers by the throat and plunge them headlong into the maelstrom unfolding in the clipped prose of his nightmare visions. A bloody, hair-raising revenge tale."

ANDREW DONALDSON  – THE TIMES

"Roger Smith is the master of the coolly-described nightmare."

MARCUS MüNTEFERING – DER SPIEGEL CRIME NOVELS OF THE MONTH

"A painting in blood."  LIRE MAGAZINE (FRANCE) 10 BEST CRIME NOVELS OF 2013

"Master storytelling, a crime ride that is wildly dark, riveting and original, a combination that has catapulted Smith to the highest ranks of the crime-writing game."

JOANNE HICHENS  –  CAPE TIMES

"It’s not often something so bleak can also be beautiful. Smith’s writing is a master class in how to create a novel that speaks to the reader on multiple levels, as well as how to infuse a work with a message without beating the reader over the head with it. Dust Devils is truly powerful writing."

ELIZABETH A. WHITE  – FLORIDA TIMES-UNION

"The best  crime fiction novel of 2011."

CRIME FICTION LOVER .COM

"In the span of just three books Roger Smith's prose has gone from spare and evocative to darkly lyrical. The story's end is a sorrowful angel, breathtakingly cinematic on one level, and on another so personal that the reader's heart bleeds. A brilliant work."

NAOMI JOHNSON  – THE DROWNING MACHINE BEST  NOVELS OF 2011

"A tour de force of a chase-and-pursuit thriller. I would put Roger Smith in the same class as Elmore Leonard, he’s that good. " MIKE RIPLEY – SHOTSMAG (UK)  

"The lead character, Moses Inja Mazibuko, is as blood-thirsty as a novel will allow."  

AFRICA BOOK CLUB – BEST NOVELS OF 2011

"Full of grit and violence at a pace that's breakneck and touchingly human at the same time. "   

DETECTIVES BEYOND BORDERS – BEST BOOKS OF 2011

"Roger Smith is very, very good. " CRIMINAL COMPLEX

"We see South Africa through different eyes after this cold indictment. Death hangs over the country like the sun. A great thriller. "  HOLGER KREITLING  – DIE WELT

"Romantics and sensitive souls beware, this is like a live grenade exploding amidst damaged lives and botched barbaric rituals. A brutally honest book. " MARIANNE MAGAZINE (FRANCE)

"We see South Africa through different eyes after this cold indictment. Death hangs over the country like the sun. A great thriller. "  HOLGER KREITLING  – DIE WELT

"Vivid descriptions of post-apartheid life in South Africa realistically capture the sinister dealings of the country’s dark underworld, and make for a thrilling read. "  CANDICE QUINTON  – THE WITNESS

"High octane action and dark as pitch. Highly recommended."

BRIAN LINDENMUTH –  EDITOR SPINETINGLER MAGAZINE

"Brilliant storylines and pace drive the novel from the beginning to the very last page."

DIETMAR JACOBSEN  –  TITLE MAGAZINE

"Smith brilliantly portrays the action scenes and excels in dialogue and incisive metaphors."

LES ECHOS (FRANCE)

"So painfully precise, lucid, compelling that you can’t help but read on."

SYLVIA  STAUDE –   FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU

"Topping my list of favorite crime thrillers of all time."

DAVE ZELTSERMAN –  KILLER & THE CARETAKER OF LORNE FIELD

"Roger Smith writes about the reality of his country so violently and brutally that it is often unbearable. And so unbearably exciting that his books cannot be put down."

CHRISTIAN MöLLER – 1LIVE

"Smith’s words will leave bruises throughout your endocrine system while pumping you up with page-turning prose. Call it pulp, hardboiled or crime fiction. I call it badass writing!"

FRANK BILL – TOP 5 NOVELS OF 2011

"Roger Smith has achieved what many writers strive for but very few attain: a compelling, high-octane page turner that also delivers writing of the highest quality. As a read, Dust Devils is as brilliant and blistering as the desert sun and leaves you with a burning thirst for more."  

CRAIG RUSSELL  – FABEL & LENNOX THRILLERS

"Forget gloomy Scandinavians, Smith's South Africa-set Dust Devils is the must read thriller of 2011."

SEAN BLACK   – LOCKDOWN & DEADLOCK

"Shocking, unsparing  and very satisfying. Overlaying Roger Smith's characteristic fast pacing and skillful application of violent action, is a sense of his anger at the corruption afflicting his country."

MACK LUNDY – MACK CAPTURES CRIME

"This is noir at its most brutal and honest."

ANTHONY NEIL SMITH  –  ALL THE YOUNG WARRIORS & YELLOW MEDICINE

"One of the best noir thrillers of 2011. A must read!"

KEITH RAWSON  –  CRIMEFACTORY

"It had me turning pages like it had me at gunpoint."

CHRIS FARNSWORTH   –  THE PRESIDENT'S VAMPIRE

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Dust  Devils was nominated for a Spinetingler Award: Best Novel -- New Voice. It also made the Top 10 of 2011 lists of The Barnes & Noble Book Club, Grift Magazine,  Detectives Beyond Borders, The Drowning Machine, African Book Club and CrimeFictionLover (the book of the year), was a Der Spiegel magazine thriller of the month in June 2011,  was named top crime novel of July 2011 by the influential KrimiZeit 10 Best List, selected by 17 German, Swiss & Austrian crime fiction critics and was one of Lire Magazine’s 10 Best Crime Novels in France in 2013.

TO AVENGE WHAT HE LOVES,

HE  BECOMES WHAT HE HATES

Framed for murdering his family, South African journalist Robert Dell's only ally is his oldest enemy: his father, an ex-CIA hitman with one last shot at redemption. Hunting the real killer, father and son take a bloody road trip into the heart of darkness, uncovering a conspiracy reaching to the highest levels of the State.