Thirteen Hours - Hardcover

Meyer, Deon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802119581 ISBN 13: 9780802119582

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr, 2010

Synopsis

After a teenage American tourist has her throat slit in Cape Town, recovering-alcoholic detective Benny Griessel must find her friend, Rachel Anderson, before she meets the same fate; and when he's also put on the case of murdered South African music executive, he realizes he must solve both crimes in a single day if Rachel has any chance of survival.

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Review:

What makes Deon Meyer's novel so outstanding is its setting - the new South Africa, where jaded white detectives are still getting use to working with black and coloured (in the country's parlance) colleagues . . . Meyer gives rare insights into the texture of everyday life in a country still troubled 20 years after the release of Nelson Mandela. (The Sunday Times)

South African thrillers arrive with racial baggage, and it's a mark of Meyer's talent to see just how well the issues are balanced with a smashing story. Imposing a strict time limit and a tight location on his plot, he ramps up the suspense to an unbearable degree.
Best of all, his sharply drawn characters really feel part of the new South Africa, where loyalties and beliefs must always be questioned.

(Financial Times)

What makes this novel so outstanding is its setting... and Meyer's superlative talent for suspense... Above all though, this is a vigorous, exciting novel that combines memorable characters and plot with edge-of-the-seat suspense. (The Sunday Times)

One of the sharpest and most perceptive thriller writers around (Peter Millar, The Times, on DEVIL'S PEAK)

gripping and suspenseful crime novel set in a violent, post-apartheid South Africa (Culture Magazine (Sunday Times))

A cracking read from one of Africa's finest (Shots ezine)

Deon Meyer is the best known contemporary South African crime writer. His six books have won a number of awards, and he was the first to honestly reflect the current realities of the new South Africa in his books. (Michael Stanley in The Guardian)

One of the most exciting thrillers I've read for a long time. (Lady Antonia Fraser)

Far and away the best crime writer in South Africa (Matthew Lewin, Guardian, on BLOOD SAFARI)

Blood Safari is my first exposure to the man billed by his publishers as the "king of South African crime thrillers". For once the publicity spinners are not guilty of hyperbole -- Meyer is simply excellent. (Business Day on BLOOD SAFARI)

Book Description:

The finest novel yet from the undisputed king of South African crime writing, winner of the 2011 Boeke Prize in South Africa and shortlisted for the 2010 CWA International Dagger for Best Translated Crime Fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0802119581
• ISBN 13: 9780802119582
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 412