The Shadow Of Dragon

<p>The Shadow of the Dragon: Chronicles Of The High-Altitude Cartel</p><p><strong>In the mountains life is measured in cattle. In the city it's measured in complicity.</strong></p><p>In the unforgiving high-altitude borderlands between South Africa and Lesotho the price of survival is brutal. For young Molefi the cost of medicine for his dying mother is a terrifying choice: join a ruthless cross-border <em>Cartel</em> or watch his family starve. He signs on for a high-stakes <em>stock theft</em> run navigating the treacherous Drakensberg peaks under the command of the brilliant merciless Tsietsi.</p><p>This is no ordinary heist. It is a corporate act of <em>Organised Crime</em> complete with dedicated <em>Transport</em> heavily-armed <em>Security</em> and a deep network of political corruption designed to move high-value animals from farm to fortune. The stolen goods are destined for the sleek offices of a Lesotho <em>Tycoon</em> who uses complex <em>money laundering</em> to convert the brutal haul into legitimate high-end assets.</p><p>When the Cartel takes his family's prized bull Naledi a farmer's daughter and seasoned game ranger refuses to trust the compromised police. Armed with only her legendary tracking skill and a desire for personal vengeance she crosses the border entering the hostile terrain to hunt the men who ruined her father.</p><p>As Naledi's pursuit forces Tsietsi's network into a corner Molefi is caught in the moral crosshairs: his mother's life or the potential blood on the snow. On this mountain the hunter and the hunted are merely pawns in a much larger darker game. The true war is not fought with rifles but with the chilling arithmetic of <em>Finance</em>.</p><p><strong>The journey ends on the mountain. The war for the system begins with the ledger.</strong></p>