Devil's Peak - Couverture souple

Meyer, Deon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0340897058 ISBN 13 : 9780340897058

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2007

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

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

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

A brilliant book. Deon Meyer does an excellent job of developing a whole range of characters who are affected by the changes in South Africa in different ways. And Thobela, a giant of a man in search of redemption, is a wonderful hero. (Michael Ridpath on HEART OF THE HUNTER)

Meyer weaves an impressively tangled web and taut narrative keeps the reader guessing until the last couple of pages (Heat***, on DEAD AT DAYBREAK)

Like post-war Germany, post-apartheid South Africa offers fertile ground for reflective fiction ... Senior editor at Little, Brown, Judy Clain, a fellow South African, says, "Meyer has an extraordinary landscape - a changed world where the ghosts of the past play a huge role." (Publishers Weekly, on HEART OF THE HUNTER)

With simmering racial tensions, a bounty of natural resources, and a government whose members worked both sides of the cold-war fence, South Africa should prove fertile ground for many fine spy thrillers to come. Don't be surprised if quite a few of them are written by Meyer. (Booklist*, on HEART OF THE HUNTER)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Thobela "Tiny" Mpayipheli is a former freedom fighter struggling to fit back into society in post-apartheid South Africa. After his son is killed in an armed robbery at a petrol station and he sees the killers walk free, he decides to administer his own brand of justice by hunting down and executing child abusers and child murderers. Bennie Griessel is the detective assigned to stop Tiny's vigilantism, but when Griessel's own daughter is kidnapped by the vengeful associate of an "executed" child rapist, Griessel begins to question his own faith in the law. Will he hand Tiny over to the kidnapper? Or is there a way out for all of them?

A brilliantly suspenseful novel, and a searing portrait of modern South Africa, in which sometimes only hope and humanity can fight the cruellest crimes.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0340897058
• ISBN 13: 9780340897058
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416