Dead at Daybreak: Photo gallery

What Zatopek saw ...

"Set in the convoluted and painful recent past of his country's history, the story tells the psychological tale of an essentially good man who cannot believe he is anything other than bad. If the Africa-set tea cozy mysteries of Alexander McCall Smith are too sedate for you, then give Meyer's exhilarating thrillers a try."

- Peter Mergendahl, Rocky Mountain News

The photographs:

Angolan Bush War

MPLA soldiers in the Angolan bush. "Cuban forces and Soviet advisors had begun to enter Angola on invitation of the MPLA in April 1975." - Wikipedia

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SA soldiers at war

South African troops on patrol in the Angolan bush. "South Africa, with covert assistance from the United States' CIA, began assisting UNITA and the FNLA against the MPLA." - Wikipedia

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The murder victim's antique shop

Different owners, different name, but this is where the fictitious antique furnitiure shop of Johannes Jacobus Smit is situated - in Durbanville's main road..

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Durbanville

ABOVE: The main thoroughfare of the small city of Durbanville, about 20 kms from Cape Town, and regarded as a suburb. It is in Durbanville that the murder victim Johannes Jacobus Smit lived and worked.