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Close Call

Gillian Slovo

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Five months since her return from an exciting five-year stint as a war reporter, Kate Baeier is back in London and starting to feel less than challenged by the series of somewhat tame profiles she is working on. Then she is asked to investigate a rape that happened at the police station.

FWPC Janet Morris is in trouble - in her own police station - and even Kate Baeier is unable to help her.

Is it because WPC Morris can't call for help

Or is it something even more sinister

After five years abroad as a war reporter, interviewing Chief Superintendent Ellis for a personality piece should be straightforward for Kate Baeier. And it is. Until she hears of WPC Morris' alleged rape - in Ellis' station - and begins to ask quetions. Evasions and silence quickly turn to threats as Kate, tenacious - and sometimes reckless - pursues all increasingly terrifying collision course with the truth.

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Praise for Close Call

  • Slovo combines adroit planning with visceral thrills. Eminently satisfying - Literary Review

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Gillian Slovo

Gillian Slovo (father Joe Slovo, mother Ruth First) was educated in Britain where she has spent all her adult life. Since Nelson Mandela's release she has made frequent visits to South Africa. She has written seven books.

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