Stephen Castle is a South African writer with a long-standing interest in agriculture, borderlands, and the quiet economies that shape people’s lives behind official statistics. When not writing crime and conspiracy fiction, he has worked in agribusiness/development projects/consultancy across Southern and Central Africa, spending time on farms, in small towns, and along transport corridors that rarely make the news but carry much of a region’s story. Cover Crop is the first Paul Smart novel and the opening book in The Border Syndicate Series. Stephen lives in Cape Town with...