One city. Five people. A bloody trail of revenge. the victim and his sister Freya Rust believes she knows everything about her twin brother Ben, but when he is murdered, she realises his life was full of secrets. She is determined to avenge his death, no matter the cost. the teacher Rugby coach Mr October has his hands full with a wild teenage daughter, but it is his own guilty conscience that haunts him as he roams Pretoria with a loaded gun. the drug dealer Slick’s ruthless apprenticeship under Mama Africa taught him that power and retribution go hand in hand, a lesson that drives him as he carves his path through Pretoria’s shadowy underworld. the detective Benjamin Rust’s murder lands on the desk of Inspector Nolwazi Mngadi. Amid the corruption and inefficiency of a Pretoria police station, she begins her investigation into his mysterious death. Why did Ben die? Who killed him? And what is the price of justice? Defying the conventions of the crime novel, Talion captures the dark and brutal consequences of grief, anger and revenge.