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Yesterday's News
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781068434105
Publisher: Black & Blue Books
Published: Oct 6 2025
Pages: 404
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Marcus Botha, a ruthless 1960s South African mining and shipping tycoon, reinvents himself as a UK media magnate whose sensational publications capture a nation in flux. Two decades later, as the echoes of apartheid recede, his dark past threatens to overrun his dazzling empire.
In a world where scandal and power collide, Botha's newspapers chronicle everything from celebrity sex scandals and AIDS hysteria to the seismic shifts of political upheaval-the Poll Tax riots, the Hillsborough disaster, and the waning of Thatcherism. Behind his defiant public stance against extradition, a perilous undercurrent of financial misdeeds and past transgressions simmers, as a disastrous foray into satellite TV puts everything at risk.
When the carefully constructed façade begins to crack, one fateful twist promises to shatter the empire. Can Botha's crimes remain forever buried?
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