A community devoured by greed, cowardice and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past. A young woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each of them will face questions of life, death and power, and each of them will have to choose their own path. Will they choose good or evil?

The remote village of Viscos is the setting for this extraordinary struggle. A stranger arrives, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the answer to the question that torments him: ae human beings, in essence, good or evil? In welcoming the mysterious foreigner, the whole village becomes an accomplice to his sophisticated plot, which will forever mark their lives.

Released into the Reading Friends collection.

I was advised to read this by book club members in Franschhoek and did so but certainly hope the moral of the story doesn't need to be put to the test. Scary thought!

I hope that this book will find many readers and travel the world!

I hope that this book will find many readers and travel the world!