Gold Mine by Wilbur Smith

Gold Mine by Wilbur Smith'Your unquestioning obedience. You will be my man.' Such is Manfred's demand when he offers Rod Ironsides the general managership of the Sonder Ditch gold mine. For Rod, ambitious and hard living but totally gripped by the life of the mine, it is the chance of a lifetime. Manfred Steyner is neurotic and ruthless, a compulsive gambler who treats people as counters in a private game and his beautiful, frustrated wife Terry as a social prop and source of

But when his sister Hanna convinces him to join the gang on a two-week wine tour

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while at the same time trying to persuade a police inspector that there has been no murder at all

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But then Marguerite's father is murdered

the themes of societal pressure

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hides under tables and tries (and fails) to avoid bumping into her ex-boyfriend

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