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When Flip Lochner, a seedy, tired journalist running from a failed marriage, sees a beautiful woman with four breasts by the lake in Devil's Valley, he thinks it is a mirage. He waits, but then a man called Lukas Death stands before him. So begins Lochner's search for "the truth" first hinted at by Little-Lukas, a young student in Capetown who was mysteriously killed. Lochner meets Lukas Death's solitary clan, where righteousness prevails by day and depravity by night, where punishment for misdemeanors is summary, yet brutal murderers walk unscathed. Secrecy abounds. Everyone has a story and…

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7 editions · 2 languages
  • Paperback · English · 2001
    Harvest Books · 420 pages · 9780156012089
  • Paperback · English · 1998
    The Devil's Valley
    Secker & Warburg · 336 pages · 9780436275036
  • Other · English · 2011
    Penguin Random House · 9781446450994
  • Other · English · 2000
    VINTAGE (RAND) · 336 pages · 9780099273127
  • Other · English · 1999
    Harcourt Brace & Co. · 401 pages · 9780151004409
  • Other · English · 1998
    Secker & Warburg · 372 pages · 9780436204616
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