Underworld

Author: Fanie Viljoen

Format: Hardback

Recommended for ages 15+

Greg Owen is the head boy of a private boys’ school when Eckardt Wilken, an outsider, joins them in their final year.

From the initiation of the newcomers, a bond forms between the two boys. Eckardt admits that he is an excellent computer hacker and introduces Greg to the secrets of the underworld, which involuntarily pulls him into a dangerous adventure. With Eckardt’s sudden and mysterious disappearance, Greg begins to question everything he previously took for granted.

The underworld knows his name and calls him to come and play.

The author has conducted extensive research on cyber hacking, and this, combined with a well-written and conceptualized storyline, makes for thrilling reading material.

About the Author

Fanie Viljoen is one of the most loved and diverse writers in Afrikaans children's and YA literature. He was awarded twice with the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature, as well as the M.E.R. Prize.

He has also won numerous ATKV Children's Book Awards. His young adult novels Offers vir die vlieë (2019) and Ons laaste legendariese somer (2023) won the LAPA Youth Novel Competition.

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