![]() The books are translated from Afrikaans, and the characters themselves slip between languages. It's no ordinary gun either - a 19th century German weapon, built to last, and used by officers in the Boer War.Īnd if this isn't enough, there's also a bank robber on the loose - and one with a difference, who compliments the bank tellers on their perfume before legging it with the dosh.ĭeon Meyer's books show characters trying to cope in an ever-changing South Africa. None of the victims had anything in common, and all were killed with an antique gun and equally elderly ammunition. Meanwhile, the bodies are piling up in a perplexing case. ![]() Mat is told to lose weight, get fit, see a shrink, or ship out. ![]() ![]() And he's determined to get rid of the dead wood littering the department. And his predicament is not helped by the arrival of Colonel Bart de Wit, a former member of the African National Congress and now a high-flyer in the multi-racial South African police force.ĭe Wit has all the jargon off pat, plus a secondment to Scotland Yard under his belt which he thinks has turned him into a super-cop. Mat's a good detective who's about an inch from being bounced out of the Cape Town police force. And he's got one last chance to redeem himself. He's overweight and on a path careering downwards since the death of his police officer wife Lara two years previously. ![]() Captain Mat Joubert is very nearly at rock bottom. ![]()
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