The setting is South Africa in the early nineteen nineties - a country in transition and open to exploitation. A prominent businessman turned politician is murdered and his death disguised as suicide. Don Keenan, a successful commercial investigator, accepts what he thinks is an easy-money assignment, only to find he is sucked into a web of intrigue with the furtive manoeuvrings of big business in the background. Thrust into the African wild he survives its dangers but more ominous predators are stalking; the hunter becomes the hunted and Keenan and the woman he loves become unwitting targets ...