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In the trauma wards of Cape Town, every weekend is a war, and the enemy comes in a bottle. Dr. Elara Vance, a brilliant surgeon burned down to her last nerve, spends her nights stitching together the casualties of a plague her country calls 'culture.' But when a fatal car crash involving a politician's son is systematically covered up before her eyes, she realizes this river of blood is not an accident. It's a business plan.

Halfway across the country, community activist Zola Mbeki cares for the plague's most tragic victims: a "forgotten generation" of children with incurable brain damage, the living ghosts of a poison sold as liberation. When her sanctuary is targeted for demolition to make way for a new liquor mega-warehouse, her fight for survival becomes a quest for justice.

Meanwhile, disgraced journalist Ben Dekker receives an encrypted data dump that contains the enemy's playbook. It's a monstrous conspiracy of corporate greed and political corruption, a plan to cultivate addiction in the nation's most vulnerable communities. The architect is a charismatic CEO who sees human misery as a market demographic; his enforcer is a ruthless assassin from the darkest days of apartheid, a man who knows how to make problems disappear.

As these three strangers unite to expose the truth, their investigation becomes a desperate fight for their lives. Hunted, discredited, and pushed to the breaking point by a series of brutal attacks that target their friends, their careers, and their families, they are left with one last, desperate choice: unleash their findings and ignite a revolution, or become the plague's final, silent victims.

They have forged their grief, their data, and the ghosts of the dead into a single, devastating weapon they call The Eleventh Plague. In a world where the sickness writes the laws, is the truth enough to save them?

This is more than a thriller. It is a diagnosis. Read the book the powerful do not want you to see.