Feasting with Panthers

In <I>Feasting With Panthers</I> the author of the <I>Terrell Newman</I> murder mysteries presents a true and gripping account of growing up in South Africa and finding himself involved in a murder on his seventeenth birthday. It takes in a wide range of extraordinary characters set against what the author describes as the unique human and physical geography of Cape Town where a great diversity of ethnic and cultural traditions collide in freewheeling agitation like disparate atoms in a cosmic meltdown. The narrative deftly moves between moments of profound sadness high drama and hilarity with a compelling honesty and the narrative drive of a born storyteller with many acute observations about human nature thrown in.