White Boys Don’t Cry

John Fullerton
Works of: Fiction
Publisher(s): Pan Books

‘I didn’t know about the murder, I swear’

When Cris Schuter, an ex-government Minister in South Africa during the apartheid era, is found murdered, his son Josh goes missing. Sebastian Palfrey, a British newspaper correspondent, is a lifelong friend of Josh’s, and is immediately hauled in by the local police. Sebastian regards himself as a bit of a Gallic Sancho Panza to Josh’s Don Quixote – they go back a long, long way, and along with Zak, a political activist, have quite a history. But Sebastian genuinely doesn’t know where Josh is, and nor does his girlfriend, Frances. Sebastian both knows and fears that his disappearance can only throw up all sorts of secrets they’ve shared – and some they haven’t – that have long been buried . . .