Apetown (Paperback)

Lars thinks he’s found a foolproof, virtually legal plan to earn money from pool clubs without having to do much work. But what starts out as a simple plan soon puts him on the wrong side of Costas, a Greek club owner whose wrong side you just don’t want to be on, and a man who happens to have a special plan of his own.

Hampered by a single digit bank balance, an unpronounceable name and a habitually dysfunctional and distant family, Lars must now rely on his friends. Frankie (an ex-SADF soldier with homicidal tendencies), Croccy (a dope-addled Australian who hasn’t taken his shoes of since he was eighteen) and Marvin (an itinerant barman who rarely gets out of bed) to help him out of the mess.

With time running out, Lars sets out to appease Costas. To succeed he’ll need Croccy to keep his boots on, Marvin to stay sober and Frankie to avoid killing anyone unless it’s absolutely neccessary. And if Lars survives, he may finally convince his on-off girlfriend Nadine to abandon her attempts to drag him kicking and screaming up the slopes of Cape Town’s class pyramid.