Held up

Paul van Niekirk, a prosperous white South African, has his new BMW taken at gunpoint while he is behind the wheel. The thief drags him out and drives away, but Paul's nine-month-old daughter is strapped in the back seat. What seems like an ordinary carjacking becomes something far more urgent.

Paul is a pacifist who has never wanted a gun in his hands. Even so, he plunges into the darker corners of his country, determined to get his child back. His search exposes a criminal gang involved in people trafficking, and it forces him to confront a capacity for violence he did not know he had.

When the trail runs cold, Paul stands close to losing everything that matters to him. The novel follows a father pushed to his limits and asks how far a person will go to rescue a child.