No stranger to the injustice of racial hatred, five-year-old Peekay learns the hard way the first secret of survival and self-preservation - the power of one. An encounter with amateur boxer Hoppie Groenewald inspires in Peekay a fiery ambition - to be welterweight champion of the world.
The Power of One
β Scribed by Jane A Adams [Margaret Duffy]
- Book ID
- 109077436
- Publisher
- Severn House Publishers
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 133 KB
- Series
- Rina Martin 3
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780727867629
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β¦ Synopsis
Two men are found shot dead aboard a luxury yacht, and the key lies with a company that makes computer games. What secret were the men protecting that others were prepared to kill to get hold of? Rina Martin decides to find out, much to the consternation of her friend, DI McGregor. But her impulse to help those threatened puts the people she most cares for in grave danger.
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