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Pretoria, 4 p.m. Piet Rudolph, 54, a grim, potbellied former policeman wearing a khaki uniform with swastika-like emblems, slips into an empty basement restaurant. Run by a trusted friend, it is one of the places where he can hide if the police are looking for him. He prefers to stay in the shadows with the lights off as he settles into a corner table...
...sting growing up on the gold reef east of Johannesburg, the son of a poor white miner who believed he was exploited by English capitalists. Even after Afrikaners won absolute power in 1948, Rudolph continued to feel inferior. Upon being taunted for his poor grammar as a young policeman, he recalls, "I decided it was the last time I would be treated this way by an English-speaker...
...film begins with a hackneyed plot device straight out of the "There's Company Guide to Humor." Bill realizes only after leaving a convenience store that he has accidentally taken a can of tuna fish. When a policeman apprehends them, they assume it has to do with the Chicken of the Sea. This situation permits Stan witty one-liners like: "I'm being booked for accessory to shoplifting" before he realizes the serious nature of his arrest...
Crichton's mood has darkened, and in his new novel, he does not bother with questions. It is the reader who asks those. In structure, the story is a whodunit -- a policeman is obstructed by powerful opponents as he solves the murder of a party girl who is strangled in a Los Angeles office. But the building is owned by a Japanese consortium. The opponents are Japanese businessmen, Japanese gangsters and, it seems, the entire Japanese society...
Terre Blanche, a former policeman, complained that his 10-year-old daughter had to watch him being arrested. Another of the right-wing movement's leaders, Piet Rudolph, seemed unaware of the irony when he said, "This is what one should expect in a police state...