The Secret Son is a gripping South African thriller — Book One.Ruan Louw should have died in the blood-soaked mountains of South Sudan. He survived only because his half-brother, who had only recently found out about his existence, had sent a team to pull him out.Daxton Klein hires Ed Steyn, a sharp ex-SANDF intelligence operative, to track down the brother he's only just discovered. Their search catapults them from Cape Town's streets to the chaos of Juba and into the shadows of an empty Antwerp warehouse, deep into their family's dysfunctional past.Multi-POV and relentlessly paced, The Secret Son is a thriller about two men who didn't know they were looking for each other, a woman who finds people for a living, and the kind of old-money violence that moves so quietly you never hear it until it's already inside the house.