Someone Had to Do It : The Judge, the Farmer, and the Slave Trader
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Overview
Three men are dead, and lise, unshaken in her certainty, knows: someone had to do it.South Africa, 2019. lise runs a farm in the wine-growing province of the Western Cape. As she prepares to dismiss the viticulturist for having slapped a domestic worker, the vineyard owner ? a wealthy Bordeaux ch telain whose fortune traces back to the slave trade ? forbids her from disciplining the violent man. The domestic worker was insolent, he argues, and the slap well deserved. A smoldering rage takes hold of Elise. That same day, the owner invites a friend to the vineyard for a merlot tasting. As the two men indulge, lise recognizes the guest. Twenty years earlier, he assaulted a student on the very campus where she lived ? an attack that remained unpunished and never ceased to haunt the young woman. For lise, it is a point of no return. She vanishes, goes underground and takes up arms. Driven by a blind vengeance she claims in the name of sisterhood, she embarks on a reckless hunt from the vineyards of Stellenbosch to the docks of the Garonne River. To the judge who, eight months later, sentences her for her crimes, she has one answer only: someone had to do it.
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- ISBN-13: 9781806951192
- ISBN-10: 1806951193
- Publisher: Roundfire Books
- Publish Date: May 2027
- Shipping Weight: 0.34 pounds
- Page Count: 192
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