Exposing Lelantus (ePub)

In 1989 a black businessman Doctor Solomon Mokoena is murdered in his home by unknown assailants. Detectives Morgan Hunter, Frans Botha and Piet Venter are assigned to investigate the murder. During the investigation at Mokoena's house an identity document belonging to a black taxi driver, Isaac Bakwena, is found in the garden of the house. Bakwena is arrested but claims that he was mugged and his identity book stolen and planted at the murder scene. The three detectives are under a great deal of pressure to solve the case and an altercation takes place between Morgan Hunter and his two colleagues over the use of force to get Bakwena to admit to being an accomplice. When Hunter is called out of the interrogation cell to answer a telephone call, Frans Botha and Piet Venter murder Bakwena and frame Morgan, effectively stalling the investigation as Bakwena was the prime suspect. Morgan is subsequently jailed for twenty years.

The telephone call that Morgan left the interrogation cell to take was from one of his informers James "Clipper" Simango who urgently needed to see Morgan as he had some vital information regarding the Mokoena murder. Morgan is jailed before he can meet with Clipper who then disappears. Morgan receives amnesty four years later when the country becomes a democracy and he and an old school friend Kate Harrington set up a legal consultancy.

One evening when Morgan is walking home from work an attempt is made to assassinate him. Morgan survives and sets out to find Clipper. He traces him to a house in Soweto but when he reaches the house he finds Clipper dying but is able to communicate with the informer before the man dies. Morgan fails to find out who Clipper's attackers were except that they weren't his former detective colleagues Frans Botha and Piet Venter whom he had previously suspected of attempting to kill him and of murdering Clipper.

Some time later an attempt is made to kidnap Morgan but his friend Sam Cele thwarts the attempt and the kidnappers escape. Morgan has no idea who is responsible for the attacks on him and every attempt to find out is foiled. He finds an ally in Detective Alfred Madonsela who is investigating Morgan's attempted murder. Morgan, Sam and Alfred set out to expose the mysterious force that is determined to eliminate Morgan.