House of the Judas Goat
What you spy is what you get. Or is it?
When a child trafficking network sets up a fake student exchange programme, families from around the world fall for it. Seventeen-year-old Kendall jets off on what she believes will be a Californian adventure. First stop: a luxurious hillside mansion for ‘Orientation Week’.
Blinded by the opulence and their own naivety, the youngsters cavort. Meanwhile hidden cameras transmit images to international buyers of them flirting, sleeping, bathing and playing.
Slowly, Kendall begins to suspect that something is wrong.
Escape is impossible. The house is sealed tight. They are also being managed from within. One of them is a traitor, a ‘Judas Goat,’ subtly curating their thoughts, sabotaging their every bid for freedom. But who?
Kendall must persuade the other students that they are all prey. Together they must uncover the Judas Goat and find a way out, or they will be sold to the highest bidder. They only have a week.
Douglas Kruger
Douglas Kruger is a multiple award-winning international speaker and the author of eight business books with Penguin Random House. Douglas’s thought-leadership ideas have been featured repeatedly on CNBC Africa and he has been published in Forbes and Entrepreneur magazines.
His first horror/thriller, House of the Judas Goat, will be published by Claret Press in Autumn 2025. Available in paperback and ebook.