JOBURG ZEN

Awards & Accolades Our Verdict GET IT by Sandro Martini ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 1, 2026 Profoundly disturbing and disturbingly profound—a haunting, unforgettable story. Awards & Accolades Our Verdict GET IT In Martini’s thriller, a journalist researching a South African golf legend becomes entangled in the horrific events of his own youth that won’t stay buried. Growing up in the violent chaos of South African apartheid in the 1980s and ’90s, Alex Lago and his disillusioned, nihilistic friends have one goal: “Getting out of Joburg alive. That was our African dream.” Lago does escape—barely. After decades away from his hometown, he returns to try to uncover the real history of Bobby Locke, world champion golfer and “South Africa’s greatest-ever sportsman.” Locke’s story, sadly, is characteristic of Johannesburg, which “doesn’t traffic much in happy endings”: Decades of alcoholism, systemic racism, misogyny, narcissism, numerous run-ins with the law, and a serious car accident involving a train eventually ended his career. The tragedies continued long after Locke died, when his reclusive wife and daughter ended their lives in a suicide pact. When Lago returns to his old stomping...