Penguin Random House SA and Book Circle Capital invite you to the launch of Onke Mazibuko’s nail-biting, paranoid new thriller Canary!

Mazibuko will be in conversation with Sewela Langeni at the event.

Event details

Date: Saturday 5 April 2025
Time: 13:30 for 14:00
Venue: Book Circle Capital, 27 Boxes, 4th Ave, Melville, Joburg
RSVP: bookcirclecapital@gmail.com

About the book

Maks Ntaka has a target on his back.

After years of loyal work for Arms-Tech Industries, Maks has found proof of serious corruption in his department. Tender fraud, illegal kickbacks, inflated contracts, the same old story. Maks wants to do something about it, turn whistleblower. What else can a good man do?

But who can he tell if he can’t trust anyone? The people in charge seem complicit, while the rest turn a blind eye. Soon suspicions cloud the office, and all the knives are out for whoever turns on them first. As Maks prepares his disclosures, he discovers that his longtime mentor has implicated him in the illegalities. Not only is he being set up by his company, but some foreign nationals with deep pockets are also on his trail looking for their cut. For Maks, the walls are closing in, and danger waits at every turn. Meanwhile, his own private indiscretions are coming to light, and soon his life starts collapsing around him.

In this compelling and harrowing account of a whistleblower, Onke Mazibuko creates a nail-biting, paranoid thriller about a good man pushed to the limit. Drawing from all too real instances of corruption and collapse, this book shows what such a system does to those who still listen to their conscience.

What is a good man to do when your own company made the bullet with your name on it?

About the author

Onke Mazibuko is a psychologist, author and educator. He has experience working in state owned entities, which informed the writing of Canary. His first book, The Second Verse, received glowing reviews from the press and public. Mazibuko lives in Johannesburg.

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