{"product_id":"9781920590567","title":"Balthasar's Gift: A Maggie Cloete Mystery","description":"Maybe it was an error for crime reporter Maggie Cloete to ignore the call from the AIDS worker, before someone put four bullets in his chest. It is post-apartheid South Africa, at the turn of the century. But there is a threat to the country s new democracy: HIV\/AIDS, which is met with fear and superstition. Now that fear has reached Pietermaritzburg and an AIDS activist is dead. Maggie s instincts are on red alert. Despite threats from politicians and gangsters, she learns too much about Balthasar s life and his work at the AIDS Mission to be distant and professional. She is deeply, and dangerously, involved. Balthasar s Gift continues the tradition of pacy, hard-boiled South African crime fiction.","brand":"Modjaji Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175851639024,"sku":"9781920590567","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781920590567_p0.jpg?v=1763634626","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781920590567","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}