{"product_id":"9781928535775","title":"Blood Blades and Bullets","description":"\u003cp\u003eMazwi Nxumalo is a naïve school dropout teenager from rural Nongoma who is unwittingly recruited into the dark world of Glebelands hostel hitmen.\u003cbr\u003eComing from a poverty-stricken family, the odds are stacked against him. He is also running away from a mysterious man and his goons that he busted executing a man in a local forest.\u003cbr\u003eAfter getting in tune with the ways of the Durban taxi ranks and industry, he is soon trained in shooting, surprisingly by rogue cop friends of his handler, Zenzele. He returns one more time to Nongoma where, in a rage, kills his friend, former schoolmate and striking partner in the local football team after learning he had impregnated his high school sweetheart.\u003cbr\u003eAngry at his protégé and fearing that he would soon be out of control, Zenzele decides it’s time for the traditional cleansing and strengthening ceremony, ukuthwala. Mazwi emerges almost invincible from this rite of passage to become an unstoppable but flawed killing machine.\u003cbr\u003eAs the bodies pile up, including of those cops investigating his crimes, so is his irrepressible obsession with his doctored bullets and one woman whom his handlers believe will be his Achilles heel.\u003cbr\u003eThe death of his father reveals more shocks around the young man’s recruitment into contract killing and he would take everyone with him on his menacing rollercoaster ride.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Nathi+Olifant\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eNathi Olifant\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Nathi Olifant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378818039971,"sku":"9781928535775","price":350.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781928535775_f6a87f01-1de1-4ed3-a419-a0feed5094ae.jpg?v=1776618588","url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/products\/9781928535775","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}