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An antiques dealer is burned with a blow torch, then killed, execution-style - a single shot to the back of the head with an M16. The contents of the safe are missing and the only clues are a scrap of blank paper and the unusual weapon used, the choice of mercenaries, not burglers. Now ex-cop Zatopek 'Zed' van Heerden has fourteen days in which to fill in the blanks in this dead man's past - a past which only seems to begin in 1983...
Set against the backdrop of a society on the verge of breakdown, DEAD AT DAYBREAK spins the reader from the lush suburbs of Capetown, to a gripping climax in the searing heat of the Veldt.
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A provocative thriller of the new South Africa, Deon Meyer's Dead at Daybreak is set in a society where there are a new set of rules and people are still discovering the hidden depths of the old set. Ex-policeman Zed van Heerden is caught up in the betrayals of his own past, betrayals with which he has still to come to terms, when he is called in to look for a will, missing after the execution-style murder of a suburban antique dealer. Who tortured and killed Smit and who was he in the first place? Not the man whose papers he carries, that much is certain. Van Heerden can never be certain of the loyalties of the people with whom he is dealing--his own past reputation makes certain of that--and he soon finds himself uncovering secrets that the security services of more than one nation would like left well alone. Deon Meyer provides us with a gripping mystery solved by dogged legwork and occasional flashes of insight, and with a telling psychological portrait of a man and a nation haunted by a past that combines brilliance with much to be ashamed of. --Roz Kaveney
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A brand-new talent and a welcome change of locale for thriller fans ... Meyer weaves an impressively tangled web and taut narrative keeps the reader guessing until the last couple of pages (Heat ***)
Dead Before Dying is both a portrait of a society in change and the interior life of a troubled but essentially decent man, written with wit and insight. But more than that, it's a genuinely gripping page-turner whose shocking revelations hit the reader with real surprise (Manchester Evening News)
The atmosphere of a hot turbulent country is very vividly evoked, and the characterisation is dynamic enough the make the familiar plot come up as fresh as paint. A striking debut novel (Crime Time on Dead Before Dying.)
Meyer is a writer to take seriously (Crime Time on Dead at Daybreak)
The best crime writer out of South Africa since Jame McClure (Crime Time on Dead at Daybreak)
Dead Before Dying is both a portrait of a society in change and the interior life of a troubled but essentially decent man, written with wit and insight. But more than that, it's a genuinely gripping page-turner whose shocking revelations hit the reader with real surprise (Manchester Evening News)
The atmosphere of a hot turbulent country is very vividly evoked, and the characterisation is dynamic enough the make the familiar plot come up as fresh as paint. A striking debut novel (Crime Time on Dead Before Dying.)
Meyer is a writer to take seriously (Crime Time on Dead at Daybreak)
The best crime writer out of South Africa since Jame McClure (Crime Time on Dead at Daybreak)
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- PublisherHodder & Stoughton
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0340739428
- ISBN 13 9780340739426
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages400
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