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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Editions
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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