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The final installment in Peter Church's Dark Web Trilogy “A fast-paced and gripping thriller—expect several twists along the way.” —Cosmopolitan Amid rumors of bartenders paid to spike drinks and then deliver drugged college women to paying, eager patrons, University of Cape Town (UCT) authorities move quickly to limit the damage—but the police don't want to believe there is a problem. A world away in Seattle, Carlos De Palma, the shadowy operator behind Dark Video, is plotting his survival strategy in the ever-changing Internet landscape. With his wealthy clientele clamoring for heightened thrills, Carlos begins tapping into a new service that blurs the boundaries between the real and virtual worlds. Meanwhile, UCT student Robbie is sent into a sinister underground world where no price is too high to pay to deliver every fantasy—no matter how twisted. Bitter Pill, part of Church's dark web trilogy, is a gripping thriller that sweeps through the intoxicating haunts of Cape Town's nightlife to explode in an adrenaline-laced sprint through the violent landscape of stalking, sexual deviation, and murder.

The second installment in Peter Church's Dark Web Trilogy A minibus taxi flipping spectacularly on its head; two teenagers engaged in forbidden sex in a shopping-mall rest room; a raunchy table dance in a Cape Town strip club. How are these scenes connected to a beautiful young woman running through a forest near the university early on a Sunday morning? Alistair Morgan is the key. A gifted law student with a glittering career in the offing, Alistair seems to have it all: looks, charm and money. But his privileged lifestyle is about to be turned upside down as he is lured deeper and deeper into the sinister online world of Dark Video, where reality blurs and morals unravel. Toggling between the urban landscape of Africa's southern tip and Seattle, Washington in the mid- to late-2000s, just as YouTube and other video sharing sites were getting started, Dark Video explores the most disturbing and darkest corners of the digital world, where some people will pay for unimaginable videos and others make money in the most depraved way possible.

The first installment 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.

This is not a book about wealth. Certainly, many of those interviewed are, or perhaps were, extremely wealthy. It is more about the lives of leading businessmen and women in South East Asia who have added value to their businesses or professions and, in many cases, to their nations. The book also focuses on their thoughts on success and its ingredients.

The Life Stories of Indian Business Leaders Raghav Bahl - Network18 Rahul Bajaj - Bajaj Group Kishore Biyani - Future Group Subhash Chandra - Essel Group/Zee TV Anand Deshpande - Persistent Systems Ranji Dua - Dua Associates Arun Firodia - Kinetic Group of Companies R Gopinath - Air Deccan/Kingfisher Y K Hamied - Cipla Shahnaz Husain - Shahnaz Husain Group B N Kalyani - Bharat Forge Limited Habil Khorakiwala - Wockhardt Uday Kotak - Kotak Mahindra Harsh Mariwala - Marico Limited Subash Menon - Subex Narayana Murthy - Infosys CP Krishnan Nair - The Leela Palaces/Resorts Deepak Parekh - HDFC Bank Deepak Puri - Moser Baer India Limited A V S Raju - Nagarjuna Construction Company Ltd C K Ranganathan - CavinKare Arun Bharat Ram - SRF Limited G M Rao - GMR Group K Ravindranath - Global Hospitals Anji Reddy - Dr Reddy's Laboratories G V K Reddy - GVK Group Kiran Mazumdar Shaw - Biocon Ltd

The success of the first four editions shows that this book fills a vacuum for readers who wish to learn about the countries of South-East Asia. Recent years have seen a number of important developments all of which are covered here. With the global climate becoming more uncertain and the threat of terrorism spilling over, this book will aid readers'knowledge of this region by addressing its historical past and political future.