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Trackers

By: Deon Meyer
Narrated by: Rupert Degas, Sandra Duncan, Saul Reichlin
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 A housewife running from years of domestic abuse. A bodyguard hired to escort a smuggled rhinoceros. A group of Islamic terrorists based in a quiet residential street. A secret government agency threatened with amalgamation within a bigger department. A retired policeman trying to get used to his new career in the private sector.

Each of these strands of a brilliant narrative is populated with superbly-drawn characters, and woven into a stunningly exciting drama by the undisputed king of South African suspense fiction. Not only a heart-pounding thriller, but also a love story and a fabulous kaleidoscopic picture of South African society, this is the finest novel yet from an author whose reputation is growing all around the world.

(P)2011 Hodder & Stoughton©2011 Deon Meyer Crime Thrillers Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Heartfelt Africa

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Critic reviews

Smuggling, missing persons and an edgy post-apartheid South Africa interlace in a riveting crime novel . . . This is the author's most accomplished novel to date. Following the thrilling plot of his best­selling Thirteen Hours was always going to be a challenge but he's visibly gained confidence, showing his technical skill and handling the different sections of the new book with effortless ease. It's a mesmerising read, and a ­startling revelation at the very end suggests that we haven't heard the last of these engaging characters.
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 . . . But perhaps his key achievement is the astutely drawn trio: the conflicted bodyguard, streetwise but falling for a major deception; the young woman fleeing a desperately unhappy marriage and discovering something that changes her perception of herself; and the ex-cop, finding that the incendiary reserves of violence in his personality are nearer to the surface than he thought. TRACKERS is a sprawling, invigorating and socially committed crime novel.
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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Enjoyed listening to this Audio book but it was frustrating when the pronunciation of some of the Afrikaans words were incorrect. Can this please be reviewed.

Narration

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Deon Meyer uses crime fiction to explore the complex structure of post-Apartheid South African society where nothing is perfect. Far from it. Like Michael Connelly or Peter Temple, he draws on the same central constellation of characters for all his stories. They are sometimes peripheral, sometimes central to his narratives. In this book, Meyer takes this to an extreme. He uses three separate voices in what are, in effect, three distinct novellas. Two are excellent, one is not very good. Hence the ratings. Only Lemmer's tale is consistently strong (until it fizzles out at the end). Miller's story is fascinating initially and original but descends into Bonnie and Clyde farce. Meyer builds a credible character then throws it all away. Joubert's story is good but lightweight. In fact, all three novellas feel like unfinished full length novels. I don't know why Meyer didn't take each of them to completion. Such a shame. It's an ambitious idea but just does not work very well in this structure.

As usual, the narration, with so many different accents to deal with, is excellent. There are some mispronunciations and slightly dodgy accents but, considering the sheer number of characters, it's no surprise that getting everything right all the time proves impossible.

Three novellas linked together. Not a success

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I liked this book, I liked the readers, and maybe the accents were not 100%, but I really liked it.

Enjoyable

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There are three storylines that eventually come together.

Lemmer who must guard a truck transporting black Rhino from Zimbabwe to a farm near Loxton.

A housewife escapes an abusive marriage. She finds work as a journalist within the Secret Services directly under the President of South Africa. They need to find out what is happening in the world of Islamic terrorism that is threatening South Africa.

Mat Joubert has retired from the police force after years of service and is now working as a private detective. His first client is a woman desperately trying to find her husband who disappeared without trace.

How can these three stories have anything to do with each other? Thanks to Deon Meyer's exceptional writing you will discover that they are linked through some strange coincidences.

A brilliant storyline. Unfortunately, my gripe is with the narrators Rupert Degas and Sandra Duncan. It never ceases to amaze me when books with South African characters are narrated by non-South African speakers. They can try as hard as they like to get their voices to sound like a true South African accent, but all fail miserably. Saul Reichlin on the other hand, is the perfect narrator as he can copy allSouth African accents.

A convoluted storyline.

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This was my first Deon Meyer book. I liked the use of three narrators, the accents were not a problem for me. I thought the characters were were developed in each story line and I was trying to second guess how they would all be woven together at the end. At this point I was thinking this was a 4 or 5 star read.
Unfortunately, the end was a damp squib with only a very marginal effort to inter-twine the individual stories and hence my overall rating. I am currently reading another of his books but this one was just under-cooked.

A beginning, middle and no end

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