- North of Johannesburg, five companies share the Kitchenerville fields, furiously blasting and digging deep into the earth. For some men, gold mining is a way of life and death. For some it"s just a business. For one man, it"s the most dangerous game of all... Rod Ironsides makes love to his boss"s wife and drives his miners faster and harder than anyone has ever dared. A few weeks ago, Ironsides had a passion for golf and one-night stands. Now, he has been handed a prize and a curse: to blast through rock and reap a fortune or be destroyed. From a split-second, oxygen-sucking explosion to a looming underground wall of water, there are a dozen ways Rod can fail. But his passion and fury won"t let him back down from a conspiracy he cannot see: men who want to turn his mine into a death trap for the bloodiest pay-day of all...