Kieran Haldenby

Takka Takka Kieran Haldenby

Takka Takka is a novel inspired by a true story. Due to the abhorrent nature of the story, the horror and poignancy, the names of all those involved have been changed. Takka Takka tells the tale of Kyle Goodall, a career criminal in South Africa. Forever in search of that ultimate and yet elusive score, Kyle recklessly dives into one crooked scheme after another, always managing to stay one step ahead of the law. Until, inevitably, he is set up for a fall and arrested and imprisoned in Lusaka - Zambia for a crime which he didn't commit. In this notorious penal complex which has had international attention focused on it in 2010 ' as the most inhumane prison in the world' he understands what 'hell on earth' actually means. Takka Takka tells the story of men living the nightmare under unimaginable and terrible conditions, and yet in the midst of this terror, this violence and torture, often reaching out to each other and finding, friendship, loyalty and courage. Love and beauty. It is a story that had to be told; and a story that has to be read by all those who long to bring light into the darkness - who dream of freeing men from tyranny for once and for all. Wherever it be found.