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Penguin Random House

Ancestral , by Charlie Human

Ancestral , by Charlie Human

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Clementine Khoza is a hard person: hard to know, hard to love, hard to fight. As a little girl, her grandfather put a stick and a shield in her hands and taught her the ancient stick-fighting art of her Zulu ancestors. The hard way. And right now she is in a hard place, searching for Drew, her young son – kidnapped and drawn into the heart of a vicious gang conflict.

 

Ex-army and ex-cop, Clementine has tracked Drew’s phone to Welcome Shade – a sprawling retirement estate that has fallen into disrepair to become a gang-infested war-zone. With nothing but a talent for violence, a drone piloted by a skinny Afrikaans street kid as her eye-in-the-sky, and a huge dog with ptsd who tried to kill her and then, somehow, became her sidekick, she’ll wield stick and shield, machete and shotgun, and wade through a sea of bodies to find her son.

But the gangs are only part of the problem. Dark, twisted things stalk the estate: nightmare creatures, elite military snipers working as mercenaries and a sword-wielding man on a white horse who has made her and Drew part of his agenda. And then there are the memories and visions of her ancestors, and her own very special hallucination whom she nicknames ‘Glitch’.

It’s going to be a hard day.

 

Imprint: Penguin Random House South Africa
Release date: August 2021
Authors: Charlie Human
Dimensions: 232 x 150 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
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South african sci-fi

This book will feel as though it's flying past you, so full of action that you'll be "on the edge of your seat". it brings familiar parts of south african society into a dark science fiction world, and is a surprising and awesome read for younger fans of cosmic horror

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