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7 Days

By: Deon Meyer
Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
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 From the author of Harry's Game - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick

I'll shoot a policeman every day until you arrest the murderer of Hanneke Sloet.

Shortly after the South African Police Services receive this threatening email, a policeman is shot by a sniper and recovering alcoholic Benny Griessel is ordered to reopen the Sloet case.

Hanneke Sloet was a sensual and ambitious lawyer. At the time of her murder she was working on one of the biggest Black Empowerment deals in South African history. She was found dead in her luxury Cape Town apartment, a single stab wound to her chest.

After forty days, the trail has gone cold. The first investigation could find no motive and no leads, only a set of nude photographs, an ex-boyfriend with a rock-solid alibi, conniving attorneys and financial double-dealing.

Benny has to deal with immense pressure from his superiors, the media and the unfathomable sniper, whose emails keep coming and who won't stop shooting. And then there's Benny's love interest, former pop sensation Alexa Barnard, who is also trying to rebuild her life after the ravages of alcohol, and Benny has to make sure she stays sober for her comeback.

At the same time, Benny's feisty colleague, Captain Mbali Kaleni, is hunting the shooter, trying desperately to find what connects him to Hanneke Sloet.

Both Benny and Mbali are about to endure seven days of hell.

(P)2012 Hodder & Stoughton©2012 Deon Meyer Crime Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense Crime Murder Fiction Africa

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Critic reviews

The reader is plunged into a maelstrom of murder investigation, political corruption, racial tension and the clock is ticking for that all-too-human cop Benny Griessel who is also fighting his battle with alcohol on an emotional second front this time . . . Deon Meyer is a top notch plotter and has created one of the best ensemble (and multi-racial) casts of any modern police procedural series.
How fulfilling the rewards are for those seeking crime fiction with real texture and intelligence . . . The author presents an unsparing picture of social divisions in post-apartheid South Africa . . . TRACKERS is a sprawling, invigorating and socially committed crime novel.
An ambitious, multi-threaded tale . . . comprehensively pulling the reader into the melee of modern South Africa . . . this is a book that tells a cracking story and captures the criminal kaleidoscope of a nation.
Meyer is the leading chronicler of South Africa, and his latest novel shows off his technical skill . . . a dazzling performance.
This year's great discovery: classy, edgy writing, subtly plotted and beautifully balanced between fast-paced action, pungent social comment and the process of investigation.
The Thriller Shot of the Year title goes to South African Deon Meyer for his superb tour-de-force TRACKERS which combines a spy plot worthy of Le Carre ("spy the beloved country") with several tense and violent criminal sub-plots and a complex and stunningly impressive narrative structure. All in all, a masterpiece of South African crime writing; which is rapidly proving to be the bench-mark of international crime fiction.'
This South African kind of crime is going global fast. TRACKERS shows why: three deftly-braided plot strands join political sophistication, strongly-drawn characters and a passionate concern with the Rainbow Nation's fate.
An unusually intriguing story about modern South Africa.
The book that stayed with me most from this year is Deon Meyer's TRACKERS . . . a dazzling performance.
Critics were struggling to come up with new adjectives to praise the South African writer Deon Meyer's TRACKERS, a menacing tale of smuggling and disappearances on a sprawling canvas of post-apartheid South Africa.
The author is proclaimed to be "South Africa's answer to Stieg Larsson" in a banner headline on the cover. I wouldn't disagree with that. He is certainly as powerful a writer, although his style is slightly different, and considerably more complex . . . this is one of the most absorbing crime stories you are ever likely to read.
Meyer's ambition matches his execution in this brilliantly complex standalone thriller set in his native South Africa . . . Few readers will anticipate exactly how the separate plot strands will be resolved. This powerhouse read, which captures the many facets of modern South Africa, should be the American breakthrough book this talented author deserves.
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So many twists and turns and depth that keep you guessing right until the end. Great pace, really engaging characterisation but does rely on perhaps some introduction to them from previous books, so it is worth considering the order of the series. The way that every seemingly broken line of investigation and dead end culminates is great! As I approached the crux of the book it made me wish for traffic jams on my commute in the car as an excuse to listen to a little more!

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Worth listening to! Deon Meyer is an excellent author and this book doesn't disappoint. Narrator does a good job.

Enjoyable

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This is the second Deon Meyer book in the series I have listened to after Cobra which took me a while to get into before it gripped strongly. It is a well-paced police procedural novel with highly believable characters. The investigation is exhausting and the Hawks team make mistakes, almost stumbling on the breakthroughs. That is more credible than the myriad of European authors' novels with detective heros who somehow manage to stay super-humanly awake and alert when sleep-deprived in the middle of such a crisis, and win through with leaps of logic and insight that defy real human abilities.
It is set in post Apartheid Cape Town with a mix of black, coloured and white characters. Meyer does not stray into political comment which must be extraordinarily hard for an Afrikaaner. Indeed, he hints at a vision of racial camaraderie, mutual trust and cooperation that could be the reality of modern South Africa. It is hard not to admire his hope and forward-thinking of a potential future for the nation.
Saul Reichlin is well-suited to this as a narrator, executing the various accents with aplomb. I have never warmed to his narrations in British-based novels but here he is in his element and has won my admiration. Excellent work that along with this thoroughly enjoyable novel with its cast of oddball characters makes for a fine listening experience.

Very enjoyable

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Wow! Deon strikes again. Brilliant story, very enjoyable and excellent spoken read. On to the next one can't wait.

Brilliant

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This novel, being South African tends to be a bit difficult to follow as the names are tricky. Also I felt that the police tended to lack a certain sofistication and bludgeoned their way through from one tangle to the next. Any successes were purely accidental!

Complicated and very slow moving

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