Ponte City (Paperback)

In the early 1990s, Lucy moves from Soweto to Ponte City in Johannesburg. Once white society's architectural showpiece for luxurious living, Ponte is now a teeming hive of newly liberated people, who have come to seek wealth in the city of gold. What they find is a bitter struggle for survival, and the decaying building echoes their dreams and terrors. Ponte is reputed to be the most dangerous apartment complex in the world. Lucy meets a charismatic gangster, who persuades her to fly to the USA as a drug courier, with disastrous results. Years later she comes back to Ponte City. Her story is followed by Roman Kraner, a reporter for Hustler in Berlin. He finds that Lucy has an account to settle, and her quest turns into a struggle for life or death.