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"Deon Meyer is one of the unsung masters. Thirteen Hours proves he should be on everyone's reading list. This book is great!" --Michael Connelly
Winner of the 2011 Boeke Prize Fanatics Choice Award
Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger Award
Finalist for the 2011 Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine's Barry Award for Best Thriller
Finalist for the Sunday Times (South Africa) Fiction Prize
One of Deadly Pleasures Best Books of the Year
One of the "Deathly Dozen" best books of the year by Margaret Cannon, Globe & Mail
One of January Magazine's best crime novels of 2010
Named the "Most Thrilling Unputdownable Read of 2010" by ReactionsToReading.com
One of The Independent's "50 Best Summer Reads"
Winner of the 2011 Barry Award for Best Thriller
Internationally acclaimed, prize-winning thriller writer Deon Meyer has been heralded as the "King of South African Crime."
In Thirteen Hours, morning dawns in Cape Town, and for homicide detective Benny Griessel it promises to be a very trying day. A teenage girl's body has been found on the street, her throat cut. She was an American--a PR nightmare in the #1 tourist destination in South Africa. And she wasn't alone. Somewhere in Cape Town her friend, Rachel Anderson, an innocent American, is hopefully still alive.
On the run from the first page of Thirteen Hours, Rachel is terrified, unsure where to turn in the unknown city. Detective Griessel races against the clock, trying to bring her home safe and solve the murder of her friend in a single day. Meanwhile, he gets pulled into a second case, the murder of a South African music executive. Griessel's been sober for nearly six months--156 days. But day 157 is going to be tough. A #1 best seller in South Africa and published to rave reviews, Thirteen Hours is an atmospheric, intensely gripping novel from a master storyteller. You simply can't put it down.
Author Notes
Deon Meyer is an internationally acclaimed, prize-winning author of six crime novels, including Heart of the Hunter, Dead at Daybreak , and Blood Safari . His books have been translated into twenty languages. He lives on the western coast of South Africa.
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Afrikaner Meyer's study of an action-filled half-day in the lives of several members of a Cape Town homicide squad ranks among the best of police procedurals. The investigators, led by Capt. Benny Griessel (last seen in Devil's Peak), are trying to discover who cut the throat of a visiting American teenager, what happened to her missing friend, and whether the wife of a womanizing music exec was framed for the crime. Though the thriller pauses to reflect on the political and social changes in postapartheid South Africa, it moves at a clip that Simon Vance easily maintains while adding his own touches to Meyer's well-developed leading players. Griessel may be struggling with a full caseload and an inexperienced staff, but he's a knowledgeable lawman, and Vance provides him with a forceful, no nonsense voice while on the job. And the young girl on the run from killers, Rachel Anderson, alternates between despair and fierce determination to stay alive. The characters speak with assorted accents, including Zulu, Shona and Afrikaans, all of which Vance simulates with convincing authenticity. An Atlantic Monthly hardcover. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
*Starred Review* College student Rachel Anderson is running in the mountains of Cape Town. Hours earlier, she witnessed the death of her traveling companion, Erin Russel, who had her throat slit from ear to ear, and Rachel is just steps ahead of the men who did the killing. Twice she has approached strangers asking for help, and twice she has been dismissed. Inspector Benny Griessel (last seen in Devil's Peak, 2009) has been called to the scene of Russel's murder, and when he finds out it is a white tourist who has been killed, he knows it's going to be a very long day. He craves a drink, but he has been sober for six months, ever since his wife kicked him out of the house. What's more, he is not really in charge of the murder scene; long considered to be a drunk and a dinosaur by the department, he is supposed to be mentoring the young black detective assigned to the case, and their delicate, overly polite dealings with each other are hampering the investigation. Best-selling South African novelist Meyer delivers another exciting if brutally violent crime novel. Expertly cutting away from the politicized police investigation to the plight of a terrified young girl literally running for her life, Meyer also steeps his novel in the day-to-day life of a country still reeling in the wake of radical transition.--Wilkinson, Joanne Copyright 2010 Booklist
Library Journal Review
With five crime novels, from Dead Before Dying in 1999 to last year's Blood Safari, Meyer has firmly established an international reputation. His latest again describes the new South Africa, postapartheid, where everything is changing, including the police. Detective Inspector Benny Griessel, self-described dinosaur cop and alcoholic in sobriety day 157, is mentoring colored and black officers while dealing with two murders in one long day. Alexa Barnard, a former pop singer, wakes from an alcoholic stupor to find her famous husband shot dead on the floor beside her and the nearby gun. Rachel Anderson, an American teen touring Africa, frantically flees five pursuers chasing her through the streets of Cape Town after slashing her companion's throat. Griessel must juggle both cases, delegating most of the former to a colleague while trying to coordinate an increasingly desperate search for Rachel. VERDICT With lead characters developed through more than one book, a vividly drawn locale where political considerations affect everything, cliff-hanging suspense, and shocking plot twists, Meyer again has produced a winner. Highly recommended. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 5/15/10; also previewed in "The New Noir," LJ 4/15/10.]-Roland Person, formerly with Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.