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    Nox
    Nox
    Nox
    Ebook61 pages54 minutes

    Nox

    By Bakerman

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    Nadia Oleta Xavierra, better known as Nox is a beautiful twenty five year old girl living on the Cape Flats.  She makes her living as a street racer and this makes her life complicated.  On the Cape Flats these street races are illegal and thus controlled by the powerful criminal organization called The Eye.

    Tonight Nox won the very important Midnite Run race.  This qualifies her for the Sundowner race where the price money is two hundred thousand Rand.  A two hundred thousand Rand she desperately needs.  But winning the Midnite Run race now also brought her to the attention of the dangerous gangsters working for The Eye.  Very unwelcome attention that she doesn’t need.

    This week will become the most interesting week in Nox’s life.  Will she be strong enough to see it through?

    Welcome to the world of illegal street races in the Western Cape.  Follow Nox as she speeds in high powered, highly modified racing cars through the streets of the Peninsula.  Here, even one wrong move can mean instant death or becoming an invalid for life.  Welcome to the Cape Flats and prepare to be surprised…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBakerman
    Release dateSep 22, 2017
    ISBN9781386594093
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      Nox - Bakerman

      Before Last

      Although the big Nissan Skyline is tearing through the darkness of the N2 freeway at over 200 kilometers per hour, the loud roar of its V6 engine is hardly audible on the inside.  The interior of the shiny blue car is a marvel of technology, which keeps the loudest sounds outside.  Nox doesn't have to hear the engine, she can sense it.

      She sits comfortably in her tight racing seat, safely belted into the soft rubber with her foot strongly on the accelerator.  The broken white line on the blackness of the midnight road seems to become almost one solid line as the GTR speeds over it. 

      Nox gives a quick look into the rear view mirror.  Something she does not want to see, but has to.  A set of bright lights is approaching her at an incredible speed from behind.  She knows she can't afford that those lights reach and pass her.  She will have to put in everything to win this race, because a lot rests on it.

      She also knows it is about another kilometer before that dangerous turn she will have to take from the highway onto the R102 route.  That turn will go right across the opposite lane of the highway and she is not going to stop.  So if there is traffic coming from the other side, there will be a hell of an accident and nobody involved will walk away unscathed.  Even her racing seat, safety harness and full helmet is not going to help her at all.  There is no protection against pure physics.  But she has to maintain this great speed, no matter what.

      The world knows her as Nox: street racer supreme. 

      As she steers the powerful car over the midnight road, her thoughts wander around to the happenings of the past few days.  Those happenings that led her to this illegal street race and which makes it so important that she walk away from it as the victor.

      Firstly she was kidnapped by gangsters belonging to The Eye.  The Eye is the criminal organization that has almost full control of the Western Cape, where she lives.  She was then rescued from them by her now ex-boyfriend, David Gourd.  He did this in a very dramatic and violent way and she is sure The Eye will never forget that.  She and David grew up together in the wild townships of the Cape Flats.  A slight smile appears on her face as she thinks about David; she cannot remember a time when she wasn't in love with him.  Even now, she still loves him, although she was the one who broke the relationship. 

      She knows that without David in her life, she is only half a creature.

      The problem is that David is an extremely stubborn person.  Unfortunately – for their relationship - so is she.  Growing up on the Cape Flats leads you onto a certain path.  Once on that path, there is no turning back.  Like David's mother always said; there is the broad way - which most people choose - and then there is the narrow way, which is a bit more difficult, but has the biggest payout at the end.  Both she and David chose the narrow way, but they chose different routes.

      After school she wanted to go to University, but was denied entry.  Not because she didn't qualify, but because of her race.  The country had been taken over by proto-humans a few decades back and they don't want the other races, also living in the country to enter University.  So they make it as difficult as possible for them to get in.  Without a degree, the chances of finding a job in this proto-human run country, is basically zero.  As mostly proto-humans are allowed to attend university only they can find jobs.

      That was the way the world worked and she had to accept it.  But, luckily for her, she is intelligent and very clever.  So she turned to other ways to make a living.  One of those ways were to take part in illegal street races.  Because these races are illegal and thus very entertaining, they were sought after in a huge way.  Not only were there the fans that came to the races in droves, there were also entire underground websites and social media dedicated to it.  Then there were whole industries, like workshops, technical factories, printers, etc. that were completely build around these illegal street races. The problem was that because these street races were illegal, it

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