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Lemmer s First Law Don t get involved But when Emma le Roux looks at him with pleading eyes, when the roof of his Karoo house needs big repairs, when the cause is good and just, laws can be broken So he sighs, and says, yes, he ll ride shotgun for two rare black rhinos Bad decision Because on a dark and dusty road in Limpopo, they stick a Smith Wesson Model 500 against his head They kick him and beat him, they lie, they deceive him, and they steal his Glock, the one with his fingerprints all over it They should have killed him And now he goes after them the start of a trail of violence that will run the length and breadth of a country, and touch many lives.It will leave a trail of blood through the first private investigation dossier of former cop Mat Joubert It s a fifty five, police slang for a missing persons case It will stomp fear and horror through the life of Milla Strachan, who walked out on her rich, cheating husband and abusive teenage son to start a new life A trail of death, stretching from the Chizarira to the Cape Waterfront And at the end of it, nobody will be untouched. Free Download [ Trackers ] author [ Deon Meyer ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Many thrillers are about saving humanity, not necessarily inhabiting it Maverick heroes are replicated from types previously established in classic iconic stories Villains are cut from generic, barbaric cloth thepsychopathic and gruesome, the better Character and language are sacrificed for plot and standard themes, and the admirable hero ine or noble anti hero ine saves the world Gosh, with the hundreds of thrillers published each year month , the human race is lucky to be alive Many thrillers are about saving humanity, not necessarily inhabiting it Maverick heroes are replicated from types previously established in classic iconic stories Villains are cut from generic, barbaric cloth thepsychopathic and gruesome, the better Character and language are sacrificed for plot and standard themes, and the admirable hero ine or noble anti hero ine saves the world Gosh, with the hundreds of thrillers published each year month , the human race is lucky to be alive.Enter the intelligence and nuance of S...Long before I started recording the books I d read and writing reviews, I read my first Deon Meyer novel called Heart of the Hunter It was a tremendous introduction to South African fiction rich with characters strong and brave, written with such specific local color, one could be nowhere else on earth I now grab Meyer s new books whenever a bookstore is wise enough to stock them, and recommend them to anyone who likes international mystery fiction.In this latest offering, Meyers takes on a Long before I started recording the books I d read and writing reviews, I read my first Deon Meyer novel called Heart of the Hunter It was a tremendous introduction to South African fiction rich with characters strong and brave, written with such specific local color, one could be nowhere else on earth I now grab Meyer s new books whenever a bookstore is wise enough to stock them, and recommend them to anyone who likes international mystery fiction.In this latest offering, Meyers takes on a plot thick with international terrorism, diamond and animal smuggling, and gang warfare He reprises or invokes old faces private investigator Mat Joubert retired bad boy and private security bodyguard Lemmer Lukas Becker, archeologist and bruiser with a heart of gold Benny Griessel, policeman extraordinaire We are in...Trackers is four interrelated novellas by South African author Deon Meyer, translated from Afrikaans In Milla Conspiracy a Cape Town housewife walks out on her abusive husband and selfish teenage son to start her life afresh Trained in journalism she is picked up by a government agency which produces an in house magazine and reports This is a front for the Presidential Intelligence Agency PIA , and she is soon involved in profiling a local Moslem cleric with links to the gang Restless Trackers is four interrelated novellas by South African author Deon Meyer, translated from Afrikaans In Milla Conspiracy a Cape Town housewife walks out on her abusive husband and selfish teenage son to start her life afresh Trained in journalism she is picked up by a government agency which produces an in house magazine and reports This is a front for the Presidential Intelligence Agency PIA , and she is soon involved in profiling a local Moslem cleric with links to the gang Restless Ravens operating out of the Cape Flats, the gangster Julius Shabangu, operating out of the Gauteng Jo burg area who uses Zimbabwean youths in car jacking operations, a money launderer in the Middle East and a senior man in Robert Magabe s government It is 2009 and at stake here is a possible te...Many thrillers are about saving humanity, not necessarily inhabiting it Maverick heroes are replicated from types previously established in classic iconic stories Villains are cut from generic, barbaric cloth thepsychopathic and gruesome, the better Character and language are sacrificed for plot and standard themes, and the admirable hero ine or noble anti hero ine saves the world Gosh, with the hundreds of thrillers published each year month , the human race is lucky to be alive Many thrillers are about saving humanity, not necessarily inhabiting it Maverick heroes are replicated from types previ...Divided into four books , TRACKERS features a large cast of characters and is an incredibly complex work It s intimidating to even begin to think of summarizing what takes place in the book, so hopefully, a brief synopsis will suffice Basically, the book focuses on security issues within South Africa The country s intell...Meyer captures the flavour of post apartheid South Africa so well in his novels the changing social engagements between a wide variety of people Trackers mixes up white farmers Zimbabwean South African , mercenaries, Muslim extremists and a whole lot , in a complex plot which is recent and feels like it touches many of the issues we read about in the daily newspapers The ending is rather unsatisfying I won t give away why but the mix of people who meet in such a variety of Meyer captures the flavour of post apartheid South Africa so well in his novels the changing social engagements between a wide variety of people Trackers mixes up white farmers Zimbabwean South African , mercenaries, Muslim extremists and a whole lot , in a complex plot which is recent and feels like it touches many of the issues we read about in the daily newspapers The ending is rather unsatisfying I won t give away why but the mix of people who meet in such a variety of situations throughout...Once I discovered Deon Meyer I purchased five of his books in succession This review is for all five of them Meyer s work is of outstanding quality He has an intimate knowledge of Cape Town and South Africa in general His grasp of the undercurrents in the widely ...I hadn t planned to read this book but came across it in my local library and, having read some of the author s other work, took it out on a whim This is an ambitious novel, comprising 3 separate but interlocking stories, each based around a main character and each based on the theme of tracking The three main characters are Milla Strachan, a housewife who escapes an abusive relationship and gets a low level job with a Government Intelligence Agency Lemmer, a professional bodyguard, on a I hadn t planned to read this book but came across it in my local library and, having read some of the author s other work, took it out on a whim This is an ambitious novel, comprising 3 separate but interlocking stories, each based around a main character and each based on the theme of tracking The three main characters are Milla Strachan, a housewife who escapes an abusive relationship and gets a low level job with a Government Intelligence Agency Lemmer, a professional bodyguard, on a job that involves transporting endangered rhinos from Zimbabwe to South Africa, and hired because of the danger from poachers and Mat Joubert, a former Police Superintendent turned PI, investigating a missing person case Within the 3 main strands there are a host of subplots with a varied cast of colourful character...Trackers is an epic novel reaching across the South African landscape city, suburb, coast line and Karoo involving three stories of people from different walks of life First we meet Milla Strachan, the 40 year old disillusioned wife of a straying husband and mother of a manipulative teenaged son Milla summons the courage to leave them and her stultifying suburban neighbourhood She seeks out a job that might use her college background in journalism and satisfy her desire...Deon Meyer is one of my favourite thriller writers combining fast paced suspense with authentic South African flavour.In contrast with his other novels I read most of them , this one is unfortunately weaker The different threads are too far apart from each other and when ...

Trackers
  • English
  • 05 May 2019
  • Paperback
  • 496 pages
  • 0307360164
  • Deon Meyer
  • Trackers