Jaco Wolmarans
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Jaco Wolmarans

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Jaco Wolmarans is a Cape Town freelance writer, video producer and photographer. A former journalist, he cut his teeth in crime and crime reporting in the Eastern Cape before moving to corporate journalism and freelance copywriting in the nineties. He briefly turned his hand to short story fiction writing during the late nineties but it would be years before his military service background and his extensive African travels rekindled his desire to write a full-length novel. A work visit to Mozambique prompted his 2018 debut, BOS. The work was widely acclaimed for spearheading a new direction in Afrikaans literature: combining traditional special forces fiction with political intrigue, environmental issues and intelligence activities. His follow-up, the historical novel SKAG, built on this path. It follows the political events around South Africa’s nuclear bomb build in the late eighties and the potential for disaster to the country’s fledgling democracy if these devices fell into right-wing hands. IVOOR followed SKAG, pitching his special forces characters Tex and Carlos into a search for mysterious apartheid-era payments into offshore accounts and secretly repatriated decades later. The novel takes the characters back to their own bloody pasts as small-teams operators in Angola. IVOOR was a finalist in the ATKV Woordveertjie Awards for thrillers in 2022. In DOLOS, the action moves to Mozambique, Islamic extremists and heroin smuggling, the characters caught in a bloody coup attempt. The novel brings together all the elements of Jaco’s fiction interests – the wealth of untapped stories in Southern Africa’s political and military past, corruption, conspiracy and political intrigue. Jaco lives in Milnerton and spends weekends windsurfing speed sailing.
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