The Secret Policeman is a police procedural set in Durban in 1997.
Superintendent Baston of the Security Branch is stabbed to death in a police safe-house. Seven days later the city's top detective, Jack Forrester, is assigned the case. From the moment he meets Inspector Jackson, his Security Branch liaison, he knows vital facts are being kept from him and that his every move is being watched. Despite Jackson's interference, Forrester picks up a trail from drug traffickers to a disbanded terrorist army, the bodies of two more policemen, and the discovery of a connection between Moslem vigilantes and a sinister, international terrorist network. As each piece of the puzzle brings him closer to the truth, he must trust no one and question everything. Forrester arrests a suspect, only to realise he's become the unwitting victim of both Jackson and the terrorists. His choice: escape, or fall victim to a wave of terror which will lead to more than a hundred bombs being detonated in the garden city of Cape Town and, ultimately, the horror of September 11.
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