Description for Cobra
Paperback. AWARD-WINNING CRIME FICTION WITH SOUTH AFRICAN SOUL Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 110 x 37. Weight in Grams: 198.
Why would a mathematics professor from Cambridge University, renting a holiday home outside Cape Town, require a false identity and three bodyguards? And where is he, now that they are dead? The only clue to the bodyguards' murder is the snake engraved on the shell casings of the bullets that killed them.
Investigating the massacre, Benny Griessel and his team find themselves being drawn into an international conspiracy with shocking implications. It seems it is not just the terrorists and criminals of Britain and South Africa who may fear the Professor's work, but the politicians too.
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Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473612914
SKU
KTG0015713
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About Deon Meyer
Born in South Africa in 1958, Deon Meyer was a journalist, advertising copywriter, Internet manager and brand strategist before he became a novelist. Meyer has published fifteen novels and two short story collections. His books have been translated into 28 languages in more than 40 countries worldwide. Meyer has written several series for television, six screenplays for ... Read more
Reviews for Cobra
Praise for Deon Meyer
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Crime fiction with real texture and intelligence.
Independent
The narrative is well-plotted, and the novel brings to life the rich and volatile diversity of contemporary South Africa. There's nothing flashy here, just a good story, very well told. Would there were more like it.
Spectator
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Crime fiction with real texture and intelligence.
Independent
The narrative is well-plotted, and the novel brings to life the rich and volatile diversity of contemporary South Africa. There's nothing flashy here, just a good story, very well told. Would there were more like it.
Spectator
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