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    Devil's Peak
    Devil's Peak
    Devil's Peak
    Audiobook12 hours

    Devil's Peak

    Written by Deon Meyer

    Narrated by Simon Vance

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    About this audiobook

    A young woman makes a terrible confession to a priest. An honorable man takes his own revenge for an unspeakable tragedy. An aging inspector tries to get himself sober while taking on the most difficult case of his career. From this beginning, Deon Meyer weaves a story of astonishing complexity and suspense, as Inspector Benny Griessel faces off against a dangerous vigilante who has everything on his side, including public sympathy. A gruesome abuse case has hit the newsstands, and one man has taken it upon himself to stand up for the children of Cape Town. When the accused is found stabbed through the heart by spear, it#8217;s only the beginning of a string of bloody murders-and of a dangerous dilemma for detective Griessel. The detective is always just one step behind as someone slays the city#8217;s killers. But the paths of Griessel and the avenger collide when a young prostitute lures them both into a dangerous plan-and the two find themselves with a heart-stopping problem that no system of justice could ever make right.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateJul 3, 2012
    ISBN9781611748079
    Devil's Peak
    Author

    Deon Meyer

    Internasionaal bekende skrywer Deon Meyer woon op Stellenbosch. Sy publikasies sluit in dertien misdaadromans (onder meer Spoor, 2010, 7 Dae, 2011, Kobra, 2013, Ikarus, 2015, Koors, 2016, Prooi, 2018, en Donkerdrif, 2020). Orion, Proteus en Infanta is met die ATKV-prosaprys bekroon en Prooi met die ATKV-prys vir Spanningsfiksie.

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    • 3/5
      I was really excited to find another Deon Meyer book... and then supremely disappointed almost as soon as I opened it up and started reading. The story isn't horrible, and a lot of the elements I really liked including the ending, but as a whole it wasn't great. It was also hard to follow since all the separate pieces were distributed in short passages all jumbled together in the first third of the book; it did not flow for me.My copy clocks in at 406 pages, and it seems like half of them were devoted to Benny Griessel's alcoholism. I guess it makes sense on some level, but I quickly tired of the battles with the bottle and the "I could have been someone" endless mind-chatter and soul searching.You have to read the book to understand the context, but it wasn’t until page 179 that I found a part I really liked; what I considered to be quintessential Meyer, but maybe I just don't know his writing all that well. In any case, I thought this exchange was great: "Do me a favor, Doc. Tell him it was the mannequin." "The mannequin." "Yes. Tell him the man fell against the mannequin and the mannequin fell on the cash register." "I will tell him." "Thanks, Doc," said Griessel, and turned to the commissioner, who nodded and turned away.
    • 4/5
      Digital audiobook performed by Simon VanceBook #1 in the Inspector Benny Geissel mystery series, starring the South African detective. There’s a serial killer on the loose; the reader knows it is Thobela Mpayipheli, a man torn by grief over the death of his son who has sworn vengeance by killing those who have harmed children. A second thread involves Christine Van Rooyen, a sex worker with a need to confess. And then there’s Benny and his alcoholism; at the outset he awakens to find his wife standing over him with a packed suitcase – she gives him six months to sober up, or get out of the family’s life forever. Knowing who the serial killer is does nothing to lessen the tension and suspense in this novel. Benny is such a flawed character and watching him try to make sense of his life and keep away from the bottle while he tracks the serial killer and becomes ensnared in the mystery Christine weaves had me backtracking and re-reading sections to try to make sense of what was happening. Meyer does a great job of adding layers to an already complicated plot. And the final chapters are a wild ride! The audio version is performed by Simon Vance. Need I say more?
    • 4/5
      Devil’s Peak by Deon Meyer is an excellent thriller. Set in South Africa, I found the book got off to a slow start with three separate narrators, a young woman making a confession to a minister, a distraught man deciding on revenge after his son is shot in a robbery, and a drunken police detective who is on the edge of losing everything to the drink. It took awhile for me to keep the voices separate and around the time I finally did, this part of the book was over and the next part was straight forward story told mostly from the police detective’s viewpoint. I knew these three narrations would converge and when they did, the story popped and took off on a roller coaster ride.This is the first of a series featuring DI Benny Griessel and I can tell you that I will be on the look out for the rest of this series. The author pushes all the right buttons and delivers a first class thriller. One note of warning however, between the assegai wielding vigilante and the Columbian drug kingpins, this story holds a great deal of violence and so may be a little too dark for some readers. However, if you like your crime to be in-your-face and somewhat bloody, with a sharp and perceptive storyline this South African crime series may be of some interest to you.
    • 4/5

      First of a series taking place in South Africa. A struggling alcoholic detective is on the trail of a serial killer who targets child abusers. Bad enough his life is a mess, and he’s fighting off the draw of the booze, but then suddenly the search gets personal.

      Quite good for a first in series. I’ll try to continue this one.

      Generally speaking, I'm not a fan of struggling alcoholic cops, but the setting and cultural aspects of this were intriguing and different.
    • 4/5
      In present-day South Africa three stories unfold in parallel . Christine explains to a patient Minister what led to her becoming a prostitute while Benny, an alcoholic police officer, has one last-ditch attempt to salvage his marriage and career. At the same time Thobela, a former freedom-fighter, is devastated when his adopted son is killed as an innocent bystander to a robbery and he turns to a life of vengeance.

      This book reminded me of Peter Temple's The Broken Shore. Although they're set on different continents both books stretch the boundaries of traditional crime fiction and use the genre to demonstrate wider social issues in an understated way. And, like Temple, Meyer paints the most spectacular pictures with often only a handful of words, as with the sentence

      "Beyond George the houses of the wealthy sat like fat ticks against the dunes, silently competing for a better sea view".

      The book is littered with such startlingly clear images that make it easy to visualise the people never met and the places never visited.

      At the beginning of the book I almost groaned audibly at the thought of yet another drunken copper (I've lost count of how many I've met over the years) but Meyer's depiction of the alcoholic's constant struggle with his demons is the most eloquently heart-wrenching character development I've read in a long time and I was soon internally cheering Benny's day-by-day efforts along. In fact Meyer takes his time, and ours, establishing all three characters and their separate, but ultimately linked stories. In a lesser writer's hands this would be annoying but here provides a solid foundation for what otherwise could be an unbelievable or far-fetched climax. Instead the stories are tantalisingly built to their inevitable but gripping combination and resolution.

      While I won't pretend that one book can give a definitive view of such a mammoth thing as post-apartheid South Africa I think a good book can provide a valid snapshot of a time and place that helps define the bigger picture. All three characters struggle with details of 'the new South Africa' in very real ways that made me think more deeply than I've done before about what the removal of the apartheid system might have been like to live through from a variety of perspectives.

      I learned since reading this book that while not strictly part of a series there are other books featuring some of these characters however I didn't once have the sense I was missing something by not having read anything else by this author. The book works entirely as a suspense-filled standalone novel which is haunting, unpredictable and utterly absorbing.
    • 4/5
      Rating: 3.75* of fiveThe Book Description: From rising South African thriller writer Deon Meyer, a gripping suspense novel about revenge, forgiveness, and the race to catch a trained killer.A young woman makes a terrible confession to a priest. An honorable man takes his own revenge for an unspeakable tragedy. An aging inspector tries to get himself sober while taking on the most difficult case of his career. From this beginning, Deon Meyer weaves a story of astonishing complexity and suspense, as Inspector Benny Griessel faces off against a dangerous vigilante who has everything on his side, including public sympathy. A gruesome abuse case has hit the newsstands, and one man has taken it upon himself to stand up for the children of Cape Town. When the accused is found stabbed through the heart by spear, it's only the beginning of a string of bloody murders - and of a dangerous dilemma for detective Griessel. The detective is always just one step behind as someone slays the city's killers. But the paths of Griessel and the avenger collide when a young prostitute lures them both into a dangerous plan - and the two find themselves with a heart-stopping problem that no system of justice could ever make right. My Review: For once it's a good thing I don't keep good track of who it was suggested I read something. Whoever suggested this book to me: Don't fess up or there will be split lips and black eyes in your immediate future.I hated this reading experience. Hated it. Fathers with murdered children, children in jeopardy that they can only desperately struggle to save, oh my bloomin' garden I was hit from every emotional angle and then smacked from behind and then misdirected into several dark corners and therein kneecapped. I started reading the book and, six and a half hours and one piddle break later, emerged on the other side of the dust jacket with bloody stumps in place of my ground-away teeth, hurting belly from all the unaccustomed muscle-clenching, and a serious need for a shower and hair wash to rid myself of the stress-sweat stink.I am still in a state of high dudgeon at being made to participate in the shenanigans surrounding vigilante justice that I can only say I approve of (oh how that hurts to type) and police corruption scandalously indifferently treated (pause for blood to stop boiling over) and a miserable alcoholic a-hole with a serious need to destroy, himself his life the world, whatever comes into range, who happens to be the one being Diogenes would light up with that damn lamp...!So. Unless you want to be lifted from the confines of your safe little rut, smacked into walls and hit with unbearably terrifying images of loss and its unending damage, beaten with the sensory overload of immersion in a landscape and a culture alien and familiar and overwhelmingly pungently vibrantly present, don't even think of reading this book.Poor you, if you don't.
    • 4/5
      I read 13 Hours before I realized that it was the second book in the Benny Griessel series and I'm actually glad I read it first, because had I read Devil's Peak, I might not have continued with the series. One of the things that turned me off of Wallander was the first book of the series and the way Wallander behaved. Because I already knew where Griessel was going, I was able to handle the alcoholism/violence/etc (unlike in Wallander). Meyer is an excellent writer and you feel for Griessel when his wife kicks him out, his pains with trying to quit but you also don't want him to give in. In spite of everything, I really enjoy Griessel's story, along with Meyer's ability to write about race without it seeming fake or just there to further the story along. Because the book is set in South Africa, race is integral to the lives of the people who live there -- and to Meyer's writing. I can't wait to read the third book in this series.
    • 4/5
      3 1/2 stars completed 6/2/11. I had read Blood Safari by Meyer and enjoyed it a lot more. That story was more riveting with a higher level of tension throughout, and the fact that book included a black mamba didn't hurt either. DP starts slowly, very slowly. There are three or four story lines running in parallel, but then one finally gets resolved. The others continue.....I had difficulty with the chronology, since one was being revealed as a confession of sorts. But finally Meyer delivers, and from the 2/3rd point of the book you don't want to put it down. Justice is ultimately dispensed, in a very South African way, and the ending is satisfactory but a bit sad from at least one perspective. The cop with the drinking problem is treated a bit different than the run of the mill - the focus here is the hero cop newly on the wagon - will he stay on the wagon? Bottomline, the characters and final 1/3 are good enough to bring me back for the next one (13 Hours), but just barely.
    • 4/5
      Those who enjoy crime fiction will find this to be a terrific read. The novel pulls together three principal characters and story lines. The characters are well developed and the plot lines very believable. This is an author whose work grabs you and makes you want to read other books in the series.
    • 5/5
      Three narrators weave a story - Bennie Griessel, a detective whose alcoholism is in danger of making him a "has been"; Thobela Mpayipheli, former KGB sniper, whose personal loss has turned him into a vigilante and has brought him to wreaking justice when the system failed him; and Christine van Rooyen, the prostitute who becomes entangled with a drug runner and small time crook who is part of an international cartel.For much of the book Christine is telling her story to a minister, sitting in his study, unburdening herself. In the long run all three will have blood on their hands, and all three will have administered their own form of rough justice.The narration often slides imperceptibly from Christine's story to that of Bennie or Thobela, and it comes as a surprise to the reader (or in my case the listener) that you have made that transition. In the long run I was never quite sure whose eyes I was seeing the world through.There are some wonderfully drawn characters in this story, and the three threads are beautifully layered.Saul Reichlin's voice (the reader) was really the only thing that reminded me that this novel was originally written in Afrikaans.I haven't read any Deon Myer titles before, but Thobela has apparently appeared in an earlier book (HEART OF THE HUNTER), and Bennie was a minor character in DEAD BEFORE DYING. One thing is sure, I will be looking for further titles.
    • 4/5
      Deon Meyer is an exciting, new South African author who brings Cape Town to vivid life in all it's beauty and squalor. This thriller deals with a vigilante who targets murderers and rapists of children and the on-the-wagon detective that slowly catches up with him. GZ