Cobra Paperback by Deon Meyer

Product Details

• Publisher: Random House Canada (2015-02-03)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 352 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780345814913
• Item Weight: 349.27 grams
• Dimensions: 9.0 x 5.8 x 0.8 cm

A new heart-stopping thriller from internationally acclaimed crime writer Deon Meyer.
     Why would a mathematics professor from Cambridge University, renting a holiday home outside Cape Town, require a false identity and 3 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.
     As the body count begins to spiral viciously, Benny must put his new-found love life aside and focus on finding the one person who could give him a break in the case: a teenage pickpocket on the run in the city. But Benny is not the only person hunting for Tyrone Kleinbooi...
     Relentlessly suspenseful, topical, hard-hitting and richly rewarding, Cobra is a superb novel from an author who is acclaimed around the world as a brilliant voice in crime fiction.

About the Author

DEON MEYER was born in the South African town of Paarl in the winelands of the Western Cape in 1958, and grew up in Klerksdorp, in the gold mining region of Northwest Province. After military duty and studying at the Potchefstroom University, he joined Volksblad, a daily newspaper in Bloemfontein as a reporter. Before becoming a full-time crime author in 2009 he also worked as press liaison, advertising copywriter, creative director, internet strategist, and brand consultant. In 1994 he published his first Afrikaans novel. All later novels have been translated into 27 languages, including English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian, Finnish, Czech, Romanian, Slovakian and Bulgarian. The film rights of Thirteen Hours have been sold to an international production company, and most of his other novels have been optioned for movies. Meyer lives near Cape Town.