Deon Meyer

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.

The Woman in the Blue Cloak is a brilliant novella which will thrill and entertain fans of Deon Meyer's much-loved detective Benny Griessel.Benny Griessel is a cop on a mission: he plans to ask Alexa Bernard to marry him. That means he needs to buy an engagement ring - and that means he needs a loan.So Benny has a lot on his mind when he is called to a top-priority murder case. A woman's body is discovered, naked and washed in bleach, draped on a wall beside a picturesque road above Cape Town. The identity of the victim is a mystery, as is the reason for her killing.Gradually, Benny and his colleague Vaughn Cupido begin to work out the roots of the story, which reach as far away as England and Holland... and as far back as the seventeenth century.

Celebrated as the “King of South African crime,” Deon Meyer is a world-class writer whose page-turning thrillers probe the social and racial complexities of his native country. In Cobra , a famous English mathematician is kidnapped and his two bodyguards are killed at a guest house in the beautiful wine country outside Cape Town. It’s clearly a professional hit, and the spent shell cases offer a chilling Each is engraved with the head of a spitting cobra.Meanwhile, in the city, a skilled thief is using his talents to put his sister through college. But he picks the wrong pocket, grabbing the wallet of a young American woman delivering something very valuable and dangerous to South Africa. The thief not only becomes the target of the deadly hit man known as the Cobra, but unwittingly holds the key to stopping a deadly international threat. It’s up to Captain Benny Griessel and his elite investigation team to find the pickpocket and track down the Cobra as the novel hurtles toward a brilliant, heart-stopping finale on the suburban commuter trains. Cobra is a first-rate thriller from a writer at the top of his game.

" J'ai écrit L'Année du Lion avec ferveur. C'est une histoire qui m'a obsédé pendant cinq ans. " Deon Meyer " Chargé d'émotion et d'atmosphère. Il y a des accents du magnifique roman La Route, de Cormac McCarthy, mais L'Année du Lion est encore plus captivant. " The Times Ils ont tué mon père. Je les aurai. Après la Fièvre qui a décimé les neuf dixièmes de la race humaine, mon père, Willem Storm, a fondé Amanzi, une nouvelle colonie, et l'a menée du chaos à l'ordre, de l'obscurité à la lumière, de la famine à l'abondance. Je suis Nico Storm, formé par Domingo à l'art de tuer. Je détestais mon père et je le vénérais. Ils l'ont abattu à Witput, dans notre beau Karoo, en bordure de l'ombre effacée d'un cercle d'irrigation. Je vais trouver ses tueurs et je le vengerai. Ce qui suit est mon histoire. Né en 1958 à Pearl, Afrique du Sud, Deon Meyer est l'auteur unanimement reconnu de dix best-sellers traduits dans une trentaine de pays. Avant de se lancer dans le polar, il a été journaliste, rédacteur publicitaire et stratège en positionnement Internet. Il vit à Stellenbosch, près du Cap. Traduit de l'afrikaans et de l'anglais par Catherine Du Toit et Marie-Caroline Aubert " J'ai écrit L'Année du Lion avec ferveur. C'est une histoire qui m'a obsédé pendant cinq ans. " Deon Meyer " Chargé d'émotion et d'atmosphère. Il y a des accents du magnifique roman La Route, de Cormac McCarthy, mais L'Année du Lion est encore plus captivant. " The Times Ils ont tué mon père. Je les aurai. Après la Fièvre qui a décimé les neuf dixièmes de la race humaine, mon père, Willem Storm, a fondé Amanzi, une nouvelle colonie, et l'a menée du chaos à l'ordre, de l'obscurité à la lumière, de la famine à l'abondance. Je suis Nico Storm, formé par Domingo à l'art de tuer. Je détestais mon père et je le vénérais. Ils l'ont abattu à Witput, dans notre beau Karoo, en bordure de l'ombre effacée d'un cercle d'irrigation. Je vais trouver ses tueurs et je le vengerai. Ce qui suit est mon histoire. Né en 1958 à Pearl, Afrique du Sud, Deon Meyer est l'auteur unanimement reconnu de dix best-sellers traduits dans une trentaine de pays. Avant de se lancer dans le polar, il a été journaliste, rédacteur publicitaire et stratège en positionnement Internet. Il vit à Stellenbosch, près du Cap. Traduit de l'afrikaans et de l'anglais par Catherine Du Toit et Marie-Caroline Aubert

A police officer is shot dead. The next day, one of his colleagues is as well. Then the South African police receive an email threatening an additional cop killed each day until a cold case is solved. Inspector Benny Griessel is charged with reopening the file on the murder of Hanneke Sloet, an ambitious lawyer stabbed to death in her luxury apartment. There’s no apparent motive and no leads, just a set of nude photographs and a burly ex-boyfriend a rock-solid alibi. Then more policemen are shot and the pressure mounts. Can Bennie solve the case and stay sober?Featuring the fantastic characters from Deon Meyer’s Thirteen Hours, which won the Barry Award for Best Thriller in 2011, Seven Days is another gripping adventure from a masterful writer at the top of his game.

Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger Award 2010They killed her best friend. Now they are chasing Rachel Anderson through the streets of Cape Town. The young tourist doesn't dare trust anyone - except her father, back home in America. When he puts pressure on the politicians, they know that to protect their country's image, they must find Rachel's hiding place before the killers.So Benny Griessel - detective, maverick and father of teenagers himself - has just 13 hours to crack open a conspiracy which threatens the whole country.

Having jeopardized their careers in an unauthorized investigation that threatened to reveal the corruption in South Africa's halls of power, Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido have been demoted from the elite Hawks police unit. While waiting to be transferred from Cape Town to seemingly mundane duty in Stellenbosch, Griessel receives a disturbing, anonymous letter: I can only trust you and Captain Cupido. There is an adder in our bosom. Be careful of phone calls. Assigned to investigate the disappearance of Callie de Bruin, a young university student and brilliant computer programmer, they hit dead ends until the trail, including the death of a fellow officer, leads to a series of gun heists and the alarming absence of certain weapons from the police registry. As Griessel and Cupido intensify their search for de Bruin, real estate agent Sandra Steenberg confronts her own crisis: state corruption has caused the real estate market to crash, exacerbating the dire financial straits facing her family. When billionaire Jasper Boonstra contacts her to represent a major property he wants to sell, she pushes aside her concerns about his reputation as playboy and swindler. And then Boonstra himself disappears, and Griessel is forced to juggle between Boonstra's bitter wife, protective lawyer, and Steenberg, the last person to see him alive.

Nico Storm and his father, Willem, drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. They are among the few in the world, as far as they know, to have survived a devastating virus that has swept over the planet. Their lives turned upside down, Nico realizes that his superb marksmanship and cool head mean he is destined to be his father’s protector, even though he is still only a boy.Willem Storm, though not a fighter, is both a thinker and a leader, a wise and compassionate man with a vision for a new community that survivors will rebuild from the ruins. And so Amanzi is founded, drawing Storm’s “homeless and tempest-tost”—starting with Melinda Swanevelder, whom they rescue from brutal thugs; Hennie Fly, with his vital Cessna plane; Beryl Fortuin and her ragtag group of orphans; and Domingo, the man with the tattooed hand, whom Nico immediately recognizes as someone you want on your side. And then Sofia Bergman arrives, the most beautiful girl Nico has ever seen, who changes everything.So the community grows, and with each step forward, as resources increase, so do the challenges they must face—not just from the attacks of biker brigands, but also from within. Nico undergoes an extraordinary rite of passage in this brand new world, testing his loyalty to the limits. Looking back later in life, he recounts the traumatic events that led to the greatest rupture of all—the murder of the person he loves most.Propulsively readable, Fever is a gripping epic of humanity striving for a noble vision against its basest impulses.