How To Steal A City is the story of a South African corruption buster. It is analogous to that of the Kenyan whistleblower in Michela Wrong's book, It's Our Turn To Eat. The book is a throbbing oeuvre compositionally styled like a novel. It dissects the anatomy of state capture. Its narrative is a sordid detail of how party politics can go rogue and implicate the state. It lays bare the paradox of post-apartheid South Africa: socio-economic injustice in a democracy where government is complicit. It does this through the prism of a City at the receiving end of the intersection of politics and business where the axis is corruption.