Icarus

@2@@20@After 602 days dry, Captain Benny Griessel of the South African police services can't take any more tragedy. @21@@16@@20@@21@@16@So when Benny is called in to investigate a multiple homicide, it pushes him close to breaking point - a former friend and detective colleague has shot his wife and two daughters, then killed himself. Benny wants out - out of his job, his home and his relationship with his singer girlfriend, Alexa. He moves into a hotel and starts drinking. Again.@3@@2@But Benny's unique talent is urgently required to help investigate another crime - the high profile murder of Ernst Richter, MD of a new tech startup, Alibi, whose body is discovered buried in the sand dunes north of Cape Town. Alibi is a service that creates false appointments, documents and phone calls to enable people to cheat on their partners. It has made Richter one of the most notorious people in South Africa. Can Benny pull together the strands of his life in time to catch the killer?@3@

Report

Sharp and full of energy, his evocation of place and character second to none. The pace of the novel is breathless, yet Meyer never sacrifices authenticity or the quality of his writing. Crime, wine and a thrilling finale: a rare and unexpected treat. Simon Lelic, author of Rupture

Product details

• Authors: Deon Meyer, Don Meyer
• Assisted by: K. L. Seegers (Translation)
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9781473614390
• ISBN: 978-1-4736-1439-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 232 mm x 29 mm
• Series: Benny Griessel; Benny Griessel; Benny Griessel Romane
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Südafrikanische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), FICTION / Crime, Crime & mystery, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Thriller / suspense fiction, Deon Meyer; Cape Town; Benny Griessel