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Detective Griessel struggles, within thirteen hours of the same day, to save Rachel, investigate her friends’ murder, and uncover a second crime: the murder of a high-ranking executive in the music industry of South Africa.
Young American Rachel Anderson is running away from the men who have just killed her friend. Terrified, not knowing where to turn for protection in her unknown for her Cape Town, she fears she will not be able to escape from her persecutors. Detective Griessel, in a race against time, struggles, within thirteen hours of the same day, to save Rachel, investigate her friends’ murder, and uncover a second crime: the murder of a high-ranking executive in the music industry of South Africa. Griessel hasn’t drunk a drop in 156 days – but the 157th will be very difficult.
First on the list of bestsellers in South Africa, having garnered critical acclaim, the novel Thirteen Hours, atmospheric and exciting, promises undiminished intensity until the last page.
Awards won by Thirteen Hours
– Barry Award, Best Thriller, 2011, USA.
– Boeke Prize Fanatics Choice Award, 2011.
– ATKV Prize, Best Suspense Fiction, 2009.
– M-Net Award for the most filmic novel, 2009.
Thirteen Hours proves he should be on everyone’s reading list. This book is great!
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.
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.
Decades 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.
There are the classic crime novels that seduce you and take your breath away through their stormy plot. There are also those that function as a pretext to describe a microcosm, a country, a social reality. But there are, and the great noir novels, which combine the characteristics of both of these categories, without the reader realizing it: at this category belongs the novel Thirteen Hours by Dion Meyer, an innovative author of crime novels who writes in Afrikaans.
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