The Bearer, (Paperback)

<p>A tablet pulled from a gold mine outside Johannesburg is killing the people it chooses.</p><p>The first man who carried it to the surface spoke with a voice that wasn't his own. He died three days later. By then, the tablet had already moved - through hands, through rooms, through parts of the city where money shifts quietly and things without names are bought and sold.</p><p>Now it's looking for someone else.</p><p>Sipho Dlamini works the night side of Johannesburg.</p><p>He sees the dead. Since a lightning strike tore something open inside him, he has learned how to move through the city's hidden layer - where tokoloshes, small, dwarf-like creatures that attach themselves to power, act as pimps and bodyguards, and where the money snake brings wealth at a cost, feeding on whatever it's tied to.</p><p>Most nights, he can contain it.</p><p>This is not one of those nights.</p><p>The tablet isn't drifting.</p><p>It's moving with purpose.</p><p>And it's moving toward his brother.</p><p>Themba is sixteen. A mathematician. And the next bearer.</p><p>If Sipho can't find the tablet first, Themba will become the next voice it uses - and the next body it leaves behind.</p><p>Marcus Reed, an evangelical pastor, has spent eleven years building a network to track the tablet when it surfaced again.</p><p>He believes the tablet is a way to get an audience with God.</p><p>He's wrong.</p><p>Because the tablet isn't opening anything.</p><p>It's finishing something - and Themba is the final step.</p>

• The Bearer, (Paperback)
• Author: Independently Published
• ISBN: 9798253020470
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-03-20
• Page Count: 296