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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 839.3636
Fabric Type: 9780316000123
Fax Number: First.
Legal Disclaimer: 0316000124
Maximum Color Depth: Little, Brown and Company
Metal Type: Little, Brown and Company
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 384
Total External Bays Free: August 23, 2005
Total Firewire Ports: Little, Brown and Company
Little, Brown and Company
Features:- ISBN13: 9780316000123
- Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
- Notes:
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The newest headspinning thriller from breakout South African crime writer Deon Meyer: the story of an ex-cop who has seven days to solve a seemingly unsolvable crime--the answer to which lies in his own dark past. When Smit, an antiques dealer, is burned with a blowtorch then killed execution-style with a single shot to the back of the head, former cop Zatopek "Zed" van Heerden is called in to investigate the unusual circumstances of the murder. Zed is still obsessed with the betrayals of his own past but must fill in the blanks of the victims life. Who tortured and killed Smit, and who was he in the first place? Not the man whose papers he carries, that much is certain. Zed can never be sure of the loyalties of the people with whom he is dealing--his own past reputation ensures that--and he soon finds himself uncovering secrets that the security services of many countries would like left alone.
Average Rating: 
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The country of South Africa is the exotic and fascinating background to Deon Meyer's thrillers. His books are filled with names and places in the Afrikaans and traditional languages: Mzimkhulu, Mpayipheli, Van Heerden, de Jager, Groote Schur, Gerhardus Basson. I loved trying to pronounce these words. They sound so beautiful and rare in my attempts at verbalization. The book also deals with contemporary issues in South Africa, especially racism. Mr. Meyer has again created a top level thriller ... Read More
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Once you get to know the main character, Zatopek van Heerden's tortured and artistic soul you will get to love him. This novel will keep you reading until the early morning hours. Deon Meyer is a an engaging and entertaining writer. Great book.
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If you like this series, this is another winner. These stories are well written and heartfelt, a picture of South Africa that I had never experienced before.
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A brutal murder, an empty safe and a missing will - this is the central theme around which this thrilling who-dun-it from South African Deon Meyer evolves. The unlikely hero takes the form of Zatopek "Zet" van Heerden, a former policeman who once excelled in Police Science, but now is a lonely, aggressive alcoholic, bent on self destruction. It is also well known that the safest place to be when Zet fires a gun is directly in front of the target.
Zet was on the scene when an accused ... Read More
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Generally speaking, I don't like novels where the hero carries around a lot of psychological baggage as a backstory. Deon Meyer's Zet van Heerden, a former police orficer turned failing private investigator, carries a backstory that would have a Freudian analyst turning cartwheels.
To Meyer's credit, he controls the backstory and although he comes close to overdoing it at several points, he does rein himself in time. It's a personal bias of mine, no doubt, but I think "Dead at Daybreak" ... Read More
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