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Deon Meyer. (2010). Thirteen Hours. Grove Atlantic.

Deon Meyer. 2010. Thirteen Hours. Grove Atlantic.

Deon Meyer, Thirteen Hours. Grove Atlantic, 2010.

Deon Meyer. Thirteen Hours. Grove Atlantic, 2010.

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South African detective Benny Griessel has one day to solve two murders in the award winning, #1 bestselling thriller—“This book is great!” (Michael Connelly).
 
Winner of the Barry Award for Best Thriller
 
As morning dawns in Cape Town, Det. Capt. Benny Griessel finds himself facing a difficult day. A South African music executive has been shot dead. An American teenager’s body has been found on the street, her throat cut. And her friend Rachel Anderson is somewhere in the city, terrified and alone, but hopefully still alive. For both cases, time is short and media attention is high. And while the homicide detective has been sober for 156 days, day 157 is going to be a tough one . . .
 
A #1 bestseller in South Africa, winner of the 2011 Boeke Prize Fanatics Choice Award, and a finalist for the CWA International Dagger, Thirteen Hours is an atmospheric, intensely gripping novel from “a serious writer who richly deserves the international reputation he has built” (The Washington Post).
 
“Deon Meyer is one of the unsung masters. Thirteen Hours proves he should be on everyone’s reading list.” —Michael Connelly, New York Times–bestselling author of the Harry Bosch novels
 
“A deft storyteller.” —Publishers Weekly

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   • source: Michael Connelly
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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!"

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   • source: Thomas Perry
   • content: “Thirteen Hours has breathtaking suspense, psychological understanding, and one of the most inspiring detectives ever. Deon Meyer deserves his international reputation."
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   • source: Financial Times
   • content: “A smashing story. Imposing a strict time limit and a tight location on his plot, [Meyer] 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."
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   • source: Roland Person, Library Journal (starred review)
   • content: “A vividly drawn locale where political considerations affect everything, cliff-hanging suspense, and shocking plot twists, Meyer again has produced a winner. Highly recommended."
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   • source: Don Winslow, author of The Power of the Dog and Savages
   • content: “Try picking up Thirteen Hours and setting it down. Try. You can't do it. I'm a pro, and I couldn't do it.'"
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   • source: George Easter, Deadly Pleasures
   • content: “A gem of a protagonist ... [a] wonderfully realized book. ... Deon Meyer continues to be one of the most underappreciated writers in the genre, especially in the U.S., but if he keeps turning out books like Thirteen Hours, I can't see that situation continuing for long. This is my favorite novel of the year so far."
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   • source: Maxine Clark, Euro Crime
   • content: “Thirteen hours in the life of South African police Detective Inspector Benny Griessel make Jack Bauer's exploits look like child's play. [Thirteen Hours] progresses at breakneck speed."
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   • source: Theodore Feit, The Midwest Book Review
   • content: “Taut, moving and deeply memorable."
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   • source: Hubert O'Hearn, ByTheBookReviews.blogspot.com
   • content: “Terrific."
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    • source: Joan Smith, The Sunday Times (UK)
    • content: “Twenty years after the release of Nelson Mandela, South Africa remains a troubled place, and Meyer's novels give rare insights into the texture of everyday life. Above all, though, [Thirteen Hours] is a vigorous, exciting novel that combines memorable characters and plot with edge-of-the-seat suspense."
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    • source: Ben Felsenburg, Metro (UK)
    • content: “The staccato story slips back and forth between the various strands at a breathless clip, doling out nuggets of plot in just the right amounts to have us salivating to know more."
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    • source: Material Witness (UK)
    • content: “[Thirteen Hours] is gripping, tense, cleverly plotted and beautifully balanced between action, investigation and social comment. And all of it rises towards a crescendo that is pitched to perfection."
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    • source: James Mitchell, The South African Star
    • content: “In Meyer we have more than a writer who entertains, and also more than a novelist who educates us about ... 'little cultural differences': his greatest attribute is that he sets us thinking about ourselves and our country and our future. Painlessly."
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    • source: Yolandi Groenewald, Mail & Guardian (South Africa)
    • content: “[Meyer's] novels are so engaging that you can easily get paper cuts from turning pages too fast. . . . Thirteen Hours is a ripping good read guaranteed to keep you up until the last word."
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    • source: Suzaan Hauman, LitNet (South Africa)
    • content: “Thirteen Hours once again proves that Meyer is in a class of his own."
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    • source: Beeld (South Africa)
    • content: “The message is simple: Thirteen Hours is available, it does not matter how much it costs, just go buy it. . . . You can't read his books fast enough."
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    • source: John Sullivan, Winnipeg Free Press
    • content: “Blistering... the fugitive girl's desperate flight, and Benny's equally frantic efforts to save her, deliver a heart-pumping yarn in an exotic locale."
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    • source: Yvonne Klein, Reviewing the Evidence
    • content: “Meyer brilliantly juggles all of the thematic balls, while maintaining an unrelenting sense of suspense. We do not know till the end who is after Rachel and why they want to kill her. We do not even know if she is implicated in some crime or wholly innocent. What we do know is that we want her to get away."
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    • source: Mail & Guardian(South Africa)
    • content: “Unputdownably brilliant."
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      July 5, 2010
      In South African author Meyer's impressive second thriller to feature Cape Town Det. Insp. Benny Griessel (after Devil's Peak), which spans just 13 hours in a single day, Benny lands a pair of explosive cases: the gang slaying of an American tourist and the murder of the husband of a washed-up, alcoholic popular singer. After teenager Erin Russel turns up on the street with her throat cut, her traveling companion, Rachel Anderson, goes on the run. Rachel, who fears the police are connected to her friend's slaying, is trying to stay ahead of her pursuers without the help of the authorities. A few hours later, Benny interviews Alexandra Barnard about the death of her husband, Adam, a record company owner. Alexandra was found next to Adam's body and to the firearm used to kill him. While the windup doesn't match the pulse-pounding opening scenes, this crime novel does further enhance Meyer's reputation as a deft storyteller.

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      February 7, 2011
      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.

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      June 15, 2010
      

      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

      Copyright 2010 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      Starred review from July 1, 2010
      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 Devils Peak, 2009) has been called to the scene of Russels murder, and when he finds out it is a white tourist who has been killed, he knows its 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. Whats 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.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2010, American Library Association.)

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