Devil's Peak - Couverture souple

Meyer, Deon

4,06

4�721 �valuations de Goodreads

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 034082266X ISBN 13 : 9780340822661

Editeur : Hodder Paperback, 2008

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RO60061950. DEVIL'S PEAK. 2008. In-12. Broch�. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos pli�, Int�rieur frais. 409 pages. Premier plat illustr� en couleurs.. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Litt�ratures anglaise et anglo-saxonne

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Revue de presse :

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

'One of the sharpest and most perceptive thriller writers around...Meyer paints a wonderful picture of the dark side of the rainbow nation...Against the odds Meyer leaves us with a resolution that is both poignant and supremely satisfying.
In no way is this a negative book about the new South Africa. It makes the place come alive with a breathless urgency that recalls the 1940s Los Angeles of Dashiel Hammet or Raymond Chandler: a bit mad, a bit bad, a bit dangerous, but exotically vibrant, a society in adolescence.

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. If it can produce popular literature as good as this, the new South Africa has a lot going for it

(Peter Miller, The Times)

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

'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)

'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)

'Meyer is a gifted writer...believable and disturbing' (Tangled Web)

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 am off to Cape Town in a month's time where I will be a loud advocate for Meyer. (Tim Butcher, author of Richard & Judy bestseller Blood River)

A Christmas Choice for best thrillers in 2007 (Peter Millar, The Times)

This guy is really good. Deon Meyer hooked me with this one right from the start. HEART OF THE HUNTER is a thriller with some weight attached and that is a rare find. (Michael Connelly, author of THE NARROWS, on HEART)

Out of post-apartheid South Africa comes a thriller good enough to nip at the heels of le Carr� ... Wonderful setting; rich, colourful cast, headed by a valiant/vulnerable protagonist. (Kirkus Reviews*, on HEART OF THE HUNTER)

Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

Soldiers never find it easy returning from war. So it is with Thobela Mpayipheli, former freedom fighter, trying to settle back into the new South Africa. But at least he has his boy, an adored companion who is a link to a happier past.

Then the boy is taken from Thobela, one of a staggering number of children murdered or abused in South Africa, and Thobela knows only despair...and a cold desire for revenge. Thus is born the vigilante killer known as 'Artemis'.

The police respond by putting on the case a man who can't afford to fail. Benny Griessel is on the brink of losing everything - his job, his family, his self-respect - and this could be his last chance to drag his life back out of the gutter.

And then Benny meets Christine, a young mother working as a prostitute in Cape Town. And something happens that is so frightening, the world can never be the same again, for Benny, for Christine, or for Thobela.

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