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Crackerjack

Peter Church author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Catalyst Books

Published:14th Mar '19

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  • 200-300 review copies (150 prepub, 150 postpub) sent to reviewers, booksellers, librarians, bloggers, others.
  • Available as an e-ARC on Edelweiss & Netgalley.
  • 3-week, 15-blog blog tour with book giveaways.
  • Goodreads and Library Thing giveaway. We will seek to host an author Q&A chat on Goodreads.

  • Promotion at book fairs and trade shows.
  • We will submit the book for relevant and applicable awards.
  • In collaboration with the author, we will plan twitter chats, Facebook Live and Google Hangout videos, and videos to be released via YouTube.
  • Promotion online via Catalyst's website, email lists (in development) and social media (blog, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube) with author and publisher interviews, chats, and guest posts.
  • Simultaneous e-book and print release.
  • When a sexy engineer hires a reformed hacker in Cape Town to help solve her boss's disappearance, the hunt quickly becomes deadly.

    The first book in Peter Church's Dark Web Trilogy

    When a sexy engineer hires a reformed hacker in Cape Town to help solve her boss's disappearance, the hunt quickly becomes deadly.

    Young, bright and sexy, Carla Vitale has been handpicked to run Supertech, Africa’s leading independent Engineering firm. Then one Friday afternoon in Cape Town, her dream is shattered. Her boss and mentor, Nial Townley, disappears, his luxury vehicle is found in a crevice at the bottom of Chapman’s Peak and $USD 20m is missing from the Supertech’s overseas accounts. Three months later and the police are no closer to solving the riddle.

    No job, no car, no phone, Carla turns to the one person she believes can help: software hacker turned day-trader, Daniel Le Fleur. But Le Fleur’s maintaining a low profile in Bantry Bay and he’s in no mood to ruin the serendipity.

    After a successful career in Information Technology, Peter Church’s first crime novel, Dark Video, was published in South Africa and Australia in 2008. He has since published Bitter Pill, a crime thriller, and Blue Cow Sky, “a novella of sexual proportions,” both in South Africa. Church is a member of SA PEN. He lives in Cape Town with his wife, the artist Paula Church, and three children. Crackerjack is his debut in North America.

    "[T]his impressively original and deftly crafted paperback will prove to be an immediate and enduringly popular addition to community library collections and the personal reading list." — Midwest Book Review * Midwest Book Review *
    "Church’s characters are strong and believable, and the plot keeps the pages turning." — Michael Sears, New York Journal of Books
    “[A] rough-edged page-turner in a similar pacy vein to the thrillers of best-selling author Deon Meyer, and fellow Afrikaans writer Irma Venter.”” —The Herald (South Africa)

    ISBN: 9781946395115

    Dimensions: unknown

    Weight: unknown

    320 pages