The Cape Flats Thriller Everyone Has Been Waiting On

All out gang warfare on the Cape Flats with an international assassin as catalyst.

And caught in the middle of all of this is Kira Carter, unemployed Cape Flats girl, who can't remember her past.  Will she be able to safe her mother and sister when the gangsters attack and why does the leader of the Red Globe Gang have a personal interest in her?

The Cape Flats explodes in violence and all out war like never before.  There is hardly a chance to breath.  Action on every page as you are taken from one excitement to the next at an intense pace.  Inhuman violence like you've never seen before.

What starts out as a simple gang war soon moves to a totally unexpected level of violence and all out revenge.

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EXTRACT FROM GUNSHOTS IN THE NIGHT

Barking up the wrong tree

Sadiq Davids was always a bully.  He grew up with an abusive father who was not only a psychopath, but also an avid dagga smoker.  This made him to beat the toddler Sadiq into a pulp for even the smallest thing.  Thus, Sadiq grew up with the idea that the only way of life is violence and he started practicing it from a young age.

When he was sixteen years old, he joined the local street-gang.  The Monkey-punky Kids.  The Monkey-punky Kids mostly sold drugs on the street corners for the local shebeen owner.  They had two prostitutes working for them, but prostitution was not their major business.  Most of their time was spent hunting and fighting the other gangs in the surrounds.   That was when they were not running from them.  In those years, the gangs didn’t have guns.  They uses machetes, axes and knives for their gang fights.  You had to be big, strong, and very violent to be a gangster in those years and Sadiq was all of that.

But Sadiq also had a driving ambition.  He could never stand to play second fiddle in anything.  That is what drove him.

When Sadiq joined the Monkey-punky kids, he was just an ordinary member.  In two weeks’ time, after joining the gang, he had a fall out with the leader of the gang.  Sadiq jumped on him and it wasn't a minute before Sadiq stuck his knife into the leader’s stomach.  He can remember pulling it upwards afterwards to make the wound even bigger.  Then Sadiq picked up a machete and chopped the now ex-leader into little pieces.  He did it very deliberately and methodically.  Almost like someone making cuts of meat. 

When the other members saw this type of violence they could just stand there and watch him.  After he was done and the rage started leaving him, Sadiq look towards the other members.  His eyes were wide with rage and he had blood all over him.  He looked like a demon straight out of a surreal nightmare.  When he look at the other members and saw the fear in their eyes, he knew that he was inside their minds.

That was where he wanted to be. 

At that moment, he knew that he was meant to lead.  That was his destiny; that was his duty.  He was going to reach the highest level and he was going to rule through pure fear.

He took over the gang.  Even the other senior member just fell in with him, too scared to say anything.  Even at the age, he was already bigger and stronger than the others were.  Then he started building his gang.  He did not follow the usual steps; he had his own template on which he built his gang. 

Even when he was small, he liked to read the comics and other pulp fiction that his father was always reading.  After reading it, his father would just leave it lying around and the small Sadiq would then pick it up and start reading.  This gave him a fantastic imagination from a very young age.  Imagination is very important if you want to be a leader.

He did not like the name Monkey Punky Kids.  For him it was a name created by someone without any imagination.  He wanted a name that would immediately go into the imagination of whomever hears it.

He was planning to bring fear and death all over the world.  He wanted to make the globe red with the blood of his enemies.  So from then on, they were known as the Red Globe Gang.  He got the best graphic artists in the neighborhood and the signet of the Red Globe Gang went up everywhere.  He later had it made into a stencil, so that it could be put up in a shorter time.  He even had it stencilled in enemy territory.  As the enemy was still looking at the freshly sprayed signet over theirs, he and his men would suddenly appear and wipe them out.

Guns were not easily available in those years as the country still had a competent government, who took care of the republic.  They used knives, axes and machetes to kill each other.  But Sadiq wanted more.  He got some of the egg-heads in the neighborhood together and they started a work-shop where they produced zip guns for his men.  With these zip-guns his men were soon a force to be reckoned with and he took over whole territories, while incorporating the other gangs with his. 

He always killed the leader of the gang himself.  Always in front of his men.  Then he simply told the gang members that they now worked under him.  There was never any complaints.  He always made sure that all his men profited well from their venture.  Everyone was treated well as long as they worked according to his instructions.  This created loyalty that is hard to find amongst gangsters.

He now moved into prostitution full force.   Pornography were forbidden in the republic in those years.  Porn usually came in via the many sailors that came into the country or those who were returning home.  They would bring the porn in and then distribute it amongst the people at home.  Because porn was such a scarce item, it was very valuable.  Any porn book would be crumbled, full of folds and tears as it moved from person to person. 

Sadiq immediately saw the potential in this.  He started his own underground press where he produced porn books by the thousands.  People were willing to pay a pretty penny for a brand new, very neat looking book with naked girls active in all sorts of sexual acts.  He even had two full porn movies made locally.  Both movies were also distributed overseas as it was seen as an exotic ‘blue film’.

On the drug side of the business, he also innovated and made it even more lucrative than what it already was.  He did not just buy the drugs from the incoming ships and then resell it.  He got the raw material at a much cheaper price and then he started producing his own drugs.  The profits were more and the competition less. 

He discovered the underground tunnels in Woodstock and Salt River.  These tunnels were made under the houses in those areas many years ago.  For what reason he could never find out, but they were there and perfect for their activities, because no one knew about it.  This made him take over whole streets.  Although ordinary families lived in the houses, his gang had full access to the tunnels beneath the houses.  In those secret tunnels, he had his drug laboratories, his film studios and his illegal printing presses.  The police searched but could not find anything.  Sadiq knew that he would always had to be just one step ahead of the police.

Another point where Sadiq beat the other gangs was that there were no informers in his gang.  In the first place, he treated all his men very well.  Once you were a member of the gang, you were treated in a civil manner.  Everyone was made to feel special.

Secondly, he told the men that if any of them informed, he would not kill that person, because by that time the damage would have been done already.  He would, however, kill that person's whole family.  Everyone, including babies and extended family.

You must always kill a family in whole, because those you left alive, will come out to take revenge, was his believe.

And he told the potential informers that he will do of much of that killing in front of them.  The men knew that Sadiq never just said something.  He was a man of his word.  So there were never anyone who informed on what he and his gang was doing.  The fear kept them on the straight and narrow.

The Red Globe Gang got notoriety all over the Cape Peninsula and it was a force to be reckoned with.  There were other major gangs, but none as glorious and as rich as the Red Globe Gang.

Then something happened that changed all that.

Back in the present Sadiq is sitting in his lounge.  He is in his house in Manenberg.  He loves this house.  Although this is not the area that he grew up in, he and his father visited many a time here when he was a boy.  So he knows the area very well.  Manenberg is also one of the areas totally under his control and endorsed by The Circle. 

He could easily call himself the King of Manenberg and no one would deny it.

In the area all the non-governmental organizations which were there to help the poor where under his control.  No one would be helped by those organizations unless he gives the go ahead for such help. 

He could also walk into the local police station at any time and go straight to the offices of the different commanders.  Iron gates where unlocked for him as if by magic as he walked in.  He got priority treatment around here and everyone knew it.  The commanders and many of the ordinary law officers each got their little brown envelopes on a certain date in the middle of the month.  Sadiq knew this was the time when most police officers really needed money and the amount he gave them was really something to smile about.  This meant he had nothing to fear from the police.  He owned them.

The only thing that he disliked was the fact that he was working under The Circle.  Although he was a member of the second Ring, it did not satisfy his imperial tendencies.  He wanted to be on top of the pyramid.  He appreciated the fact that there was an organization, which united all the criminal gangs in the province.  Why, if it were not established, he would have establish such an organization himself.

Now, as he sits in his lounge, he had already received the reports of what happened in Dark City.  Almost his whole crew killed and the under-boss only escaping with his life.  According to all he heard, this was done by a single girl.  A single girl.

Worse of all was that everybody saw this.  The whole community saw his men getting humiliated.  Something like this will undermine the authority of the gangs in a huge way and he simply could not allow it.  Never.  He feels the rage boiling up in him.

As he stands up to make himself another drink, his mobile phone starts ringing and the reports starts coming in.  With the second report, he sinks down in his luxurious couch with dismay.  This cannot be happening.

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