Devil's Peak
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4.4 • 11 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick
The former freedom fighter known as 'Tiny' has finally achieved his dream of a peaceful life. But then his beloved son is taken away from him. In that moment, he unleashes himself upon a corrupt South Africa. His victims are those guilty of crimes against children.
He goes by the name of Artemis.
Benny Griessel, a fading policeman on the brink of losing his job, family and self-respect, is assigned the case. Benny knows that this is his last chance - both his career and the safety of Cape Town are on the line.
But then Benny meets Christine, a young mother working as a prostitute, and something happens that is so terrifying that the world will never be the same again for Benny, for Christine, or for Tiny.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Crime writer Deon Meyer—one of our Discover New Authors nominees—uses the frayed, richly textured social fabric of post-apartheid South Africa as the backdrop for his gritty and original thrillers. In Devil’s Peak, Meyer’s protagonist Benny Griessel, a veteran Cape Town murder detective, works a case involving a high-end call girl, a ruthless gang and a vigilante avenger who wields a Xhosa tribal sword against perpetrators of violence against children. Meyer’s urban setting is sordid, chaotic, and frighteningly realistic. His nuanced characters are scarred by their country’s collective memories of violence and mired in a desperate struggle to face their demons.
