Thirteen Hours
9780340953617
Hodder
Paperback
410pp
Hodder
198x133x26
Deon Meyer Hodder FF|FYT|FH Paperback 2011
This terrific, action-packed thriller has superbly drawn characters and an enthralling setting. Deon Meyer is one of the best crime writers on the planet.
Mail on Sunday
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
Deon Meyer is the undisputed king of South African crime fiction, and THIRTEEN HOURS demonstrates why.
The 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… This is a vigorous, exciting novel that combines memorable characters and plot with edge-of-the-seat suspense.
The Sunday Times
Far and away South Africa's best crime writer
The Times
gripping and suspenseful crime novel set in a violent, post-apartheid South Africa
Culture Magazine (The Sunday Times)
A cracking read from one of Africa's finest
Shots ezine
One of the sharpest and most perceptive thriller writers around
Peter Millar, The Times, on DEVIL’S PEAK
Far and away the best crime writer in South Africa
Matthew Lewin, Guardian, on BLOOD SAFARI
One of the most exciting thrillers I've read for a long time.
Lady Antonia Fraser
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
Pulsating and gripping
The Sunday Times on BLOOD SAFARI
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
Tim Butcher, author of Richard and Judy bestseller BLOOD RIVER, on DEVIL’S PEAK
'A moving, expertly constructed story of a broken man's redemption'
The Sunday Times on DEVIL’S PEAK
Out of post-apartheid South Africa comes a thriller good enough to nip at the heels of le Carr�
Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on HEART OF THE HUNTER
A Christmas Choice for best thrillers in 2007
The Times on DEVIL’S PEAK
A glimpse of the soul of the new South Africa in all its glory, and with all the gory details of its problems and corruption…I marvelled at the intricacy of the plotting, I smiled at Christine's cheeky ingenuity, I felt Thobela's pain and Benny's desperation, and I was stunned by a denouement of awesome power and accomplishment
Guardian on DEVIL’S PEAK
My favourite South African thriller writer
James Mitchell, Tonight, South Africa, on DEVIL’S PEAK
'Meyer is a gifted writer…believable and disturbing'
Tangled Web on DEVIL’S PEAK
'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 on DEVIL’S PEAK
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 on HEART OF THE HUNTER
HEART OF THE HUNTER is 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, author of THE PREDATOR, on HEART