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Nur achtundvierzig Stunden Durban in den fünfziger Jahren. Drogenbosse, Zuhälter, korrupte Polizisten, indische Kleinkriminelle, gestrandete Deutsche beherrschen die Szene. Emmanuel Cooper, ein verdeckter Ermittler, muss einen Mörder finden, um sich selbst zu retten. Eindrucksvoll beschreibt Malla Nunn die dunklen, gleichwohl faszinierenden Seiten Südafrikas. -------------- DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, 1953. Forced to resign from his position of Detective Sergeant and re-classified as 'mixed race' after an incident involving a young black woman, Emmanuel Cooper winds up powerless and alone in the tough coastal city of Durban, mixing labouring with surveillance work for his old boss, Major van Nickerk. Patrolling the freight yards one night, he stumbles upon the body of a young white boy and the detective in him cannot, or will not, walk away. When two more bodies - this time an older English woman and her maid - are discovered at his boarding house, he unwittingly becomes the prime suspect in a triple murder case.