Siegfried Walther

You're on a deserted beach, minding your own business and you come across a blue plastic drum. Inside you find it contains 30 bricks of cocaine. It's worth around nine million Rand on the street.
You're normally law abiding....but it occurs to you that the people who lost the drum are criminals after all. And what will the police do with it if you report it? What do you do? Choose carefully! This is a watershed ...moment which could change your life....whatever you do.

This is the situation which our protagonist, Simon Sayer, encounters in The Powder Of One, now on pre-release and due for release on 27 March 2015.

Simon Sayer's wedding to the daughter of Cape Town millionaire Sander Castle, was always going to be spoken about for some time. Abby Castle's mother, Brigitte Castle, spared no expense endeavouring to guarantee it.

However, whenever the wedding came up in conversation, it always elicited the same question. Did they catch the unidentified scoundrel who had committed that unforgivable misdeed? - Nay let's call it crime, for that is what it was!

Brigitte's hopes that people would tire of the story were dashed when it was revealed in the local press that a meeting held between Sander Castle and the banqueting manger of the Mount Nelson had degenerated into a fierce shouting match in which Sander repeated his view that a member of hotel's staff was the perpetrator, whilst the manager, on the other hand, remained defiant that the villain had to one of the guests. Little did either of them realise that the truth would be revealed shortly after Simon and Abby returned from their honeymoon.

Simon Sayer chances upon a plastic blue drum bobbing in the surf near the beach at Mariner’s Cove. He fishes it out. It contains thirty bricks of cocaine each weighing one kilogram. Faced with several choices, Simon impulsively decides to keep half of the find. It’s a decision which runs counter to Simon’s law abiding nature.

To ease his conscience, he makes an anonymous phone call to the police to report having spotted a suspicious blue drum on the beach. This is a mistake which will cause a host of weird, wacky characters to cross Simon's path.

An amusing tale which is so odd it has to be read not to be believed

I started writing stories while still at school. However I was unable to finish anything I started. I've since come to the conclusion that for most types of literature, it is best to have lived a little yourself before you try to write about your perceptions of others.

I completed my first novel, IN GUARDS WE TRUST, this year at the age of 48.