We are pleased to announce that Deon Meyer’s Thirteen Hours has won the prestigious Barry Prize for Best Thriller of 2011!
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Clik here to view.Previous Honours:
• Shortlisted for the Boeke Prize
• An Independent Summer Pick
• Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Award
• Finalist for the Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel
• Included in Margaret Cannon’s Deathly Dozen
• Finalist for the CWA International Dagger
• Winner of the ATKV Prize for Suspense Fiction (South Africa)
Praise for Thirteen Hours:
“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.” ––Don Winslow, author of The Power of the Dog and Satori
“Deon Meyer is one of the unsung masters. Thirteen Hours proves he should be on everyone’s reading list. This book is great!” ––Michael Connelly
“There have been other South African crime novelists, but none are as deft at place as Deon Meyer. . . . Meyer weaves all this into a tightly plotted story––with a twist that works beautifully––and unforgettable characters.” ––Margaret Cannon, The Globe and Mail
“Bestselling South African novelist Meyer delivers another exciting if brutally violent crime novel. Expertly cutting away from the politicized police investigation to the plight of a terrified young girl literally running for her life, Meyer also steeps his novel in the day-to-day life of a country still reeling in the wake of radical transition.” ––Joanne Wilkinson, Atlantic Monthly (starred review)
“Outstanding . . . edge-of-the-seat suspense.” ––The Sunday Times
“Thirteen Hours is Cape Town today, with all its exquisite beauty, tribal conflicts, loyalties and corruptions.” —The Globe and Mail
“Meyer is brilliant at suspense, a skill that is coupled with beguilingly unabashed social commentary.” —The Sunday Times
“A terrific read from South Africa’s best: a hard-nosed police procedural that’s also one of those race-against-time thrillers you need to read as quickly as possible. . . . Meyer is a class act, his novel edgy, subtly plotted and beautifully balanced between fast-paced action, believable characterization, the tense process of investigation and penetrating social comment.” —The Australian
“South African thrillers arrive with racial baggage, and it’s a mark of Meyer’s talent to see just how well the issues are balanced with a smashing story. Imposing a strict time limit and a tight location on his plot, he 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.” ––The Financial Times
“His novels are so engaging that you can easily get paper cuts from turning pages too fast or gripping books too tightly in one of his super- suspenseful moments. . . . A ripping good read guaranteed to keep you up until the last word.” —The Guardian
“The narrative is bracing and the characters resonant and ripe. Meyer’s pitch-perfect pace purrs and thrums. The reader feels like a detective as fragments eventually pull together from the grime of corruption. You suspect, you speculate and you quiver.” —American Statesman
“Afrikaans writer [Meyer] keeps the reader guessing and flipping the pages right to the bang-up ending, but it’s the human element that makes [Meyers’] novels a standout.” —Seacoast Online
“A fast-paced suspense tale, told from multiple viewpoints, Thirteen Hours will hold you in your seat until you finish the book. A fine tale from a rapidly rising star on the crime writing scene.” —Sherbrooke Record
“A heart-pumping yarn.” —Winnipeg Free Press
Are you dying to dig into Thirteen Hours? Read the first Chapter here.