Durban-based Nathi Olifant is a former crime and features journalist for Independent Media and the Sunday Times senior political correspondent. Nathi holds qualifications in Creative Writing and Journalism and first cut his teeth into fiction by writing short stories for Drum magazine and the now defunct Pace magazine. He has 17 years of journalism experience at a senior level. An ardent radio and TV commentator, Nathi currently works for the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Sport, Arts and Culture as a communicator and speechwriter. His 2020 debut novel, Blood, Blades and Bullets – Anatomy of a Glebelands Hitman, won the 2021 The Book Behind Awards for Best English Novel: Male. The sequel, The Fugitives published in 2021 is his second novel in the Glebelands Hitmen Series. He is working on his third crime novel Assassins Endgame to complete the trilogy. Nathi is also simultaneously writing another separate crime novel, Exposing Justice, that explores crime scene investigation by a female cop as a protagonist.