Blood Safari - Hardcover

Meyer, Deon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0307356620 ISBN 13: 9780307356628

Publisher: Random House of Canada Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

When the rich and famous visit South Africa, their first port of call is often Body Armor, the personal security company offering two types of protection: the big and intimidating muscle men called Gorillas or the lean and hungry former government body guards, referred to as Invisibles.

Lemmer is a freelance Invisible. The tiny and beautiful Emma le Roux, a brand consultant from Cape Town, wants to hire him. He needs the money, so he listens to her story. Lemmer’s First General Law is: Don’t get involved. But he has never failed as a body guard and he’s also grown a little too fond of Emma. He uncovers simmering racial and political tensions, greed, corruption, and a network of eco-terrorists. He follows the leads until he finds what he’s after: The people who attacked Emma. Getting to them will be extremely dangerous, and exposing them could have international political implications. If he fails, both he and Emma will end up dead. But Lemmer is sick and tired of being invisible. He goes after them, against all odds.

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Review

With Deon Meyer you can't go wrong. He's a writer whose work I admire, wait for and then devour (Michael Connelly)

A Christmas Choice for best thrillers in 2007 (The Times on DEVIL'S PEAK)

My favourite South African thriller writer (James Mitchell, Tonight, South Africa, on DEVIL'S PEAK)

'Meyer is a gifted writer...believable and disturbing' (Tangled Web on DEVIL'S PEAK)

I rushed through it like one of Meyer's beloved BMW motorbikes in overdrive. A fantastic read. I know Cape Town well and he did glorious justice to the city's mosaic; the Atlantic view penthouse pads rubbing up against the faded white trash apartment blocks and the booze-clogged coloured townships...I will be a loud advocate for Meyer. (Tim Butcher, author of Richard & Judy bestseller Blood River, on DEVIL'S PEAK)

Out of post-apartheid South Africa comes a thriller good enough to nip at the heels of le Carré (Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on HEART OF THE HUNTER)

'One of the sharpest and most perceptive thriller writers around...Think of Meyer in the way that you might have regarded a bottle of Cape red a dozen years ago - dark, strong with an unusual but beguilingly moreish taste' (The Times on DEVIL'S PEAK)

A glimpse of the soul of the new South Africa in all its glory, and with all the gory details of its problems and corruption...I marvelled at the intricacy of the plotting, I smiled at Christine's cheeky ingenuity, I felt Thobela's pain and Benny's desperation, and I was stunned by a denouement of awesome power and accomplishment (Guardian on DEVIL'S PEAK)

'Moving, expertly constructed story of a broken man's redemption' (The Sunday Times on DEVIL'S PEAK)

'Deon Meyer, who writes in Afrikaans, portrays a world of terrifying uncertainty, in which those who fought for liberation from apartheid are having to come to terms with the knowledge that freedom is not enough to wipe out cruelty. A thoughtful and exciting novel' (Times Literary Supplement on DEVIL'S PEAK)

Book Description

A new South African thriller from the author of DEVIL'S PEAK

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House of Canada Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0307356620
• ISBN 13: 9780307356628
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 374