Mark Shaw

Don’t miss the launch of Breaking the Bombers: How the Hunt for Pagad Created a Crack Police Unit by Mark Shaw in Cape Town (9 Oct)

Jonathan Ball Publishers and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of Breaking the Bombers: How the Hunt for Pagad Created a Crack Police Unit by Mark Shaw.

New book alert! Breaking the Bombers: How the Hunt for Pagad Created a Crack Police Unit by Mark Shaw

Mark Shaw’s new book Breaking the Bombers: How the Hunt for Pagad Created a Crack Police Unit will be out this month from Jonathan Ball Publishers.

Don’t miss the virtual book launch of Give Us More Guns: How South Africa’s Gangs were Armed by Mark Shaw (20 Apr)

Jonathan Ball Publishers and The Reading List invite you to the virtual book launch of Give Us More Guns: How South Africa’s Gangs were Armed by Mark Shaw.

Don’t miss a Daily Maverick free webinar with Mark Shaw, author of Give Us More Guns: How South Africa’s Gangs were Armed (1 Apr)

Join Daily Maverick associate editor Marianne Thamm for a conversation with Mark Shaw, author of the new book Give Us More Guns: How South Africa’s Gangs were Armed.

Give Us More Guns – how millions of rands’ worth of guns got into the hands of South Africa’s crime bosses, and the bloodbath that ensued

Give Us More Guns: How South Africa’s Gangs were Armed by Mark Shaw is out in March from Jonathan Ball Publishers.

Mark Shaw, author of Hitmen for Hire, says the South African state has become entangled in the underworld

Mark Shaw talks about delving into South Africa’s underworld in his new book, Hitmen for Hire.

A disconcerting portrait of South Africa’s underworld: Tymon Smith reviews Hitmen for Hire

Hitmen for Hire by Mark Shaw debunks the myth that assassinations and political killings belong to South Africa’s past.

Fikile Mbalula should read this book: Marianne Thamm recommends Mark Shaw’s Hitmen for Hire

Marianne Thamm has reviewed Mark Shaw’s new book Hitmen for Hire: Exposing South Africa’s Underworld for the Daily Maverick.

The price of a life? Anything from R5,000 upwards: Read an excerpt from Hitmen for Hire by Mark Shaw

In Hitmen for Hire, author Mark Shaw takes the reader on a journey like no other, navigating a world of South Africa’s hitmen, informers, rogue policemen, taxi bosses, gang leaders and crooked businessmen.

New book exposes the world of professional hitmen in South Africa

When you next sit down at your local coffee shop, look around you: there may just be a professional hitman sitting at the next table. As author Mark Shaw reveals in this highly original and informative book, the ‘upper world’ sails perilously close to the underworld.