06204cam a2200541 4500 233714235 TxAuBib 20140806120000.0 ||||||s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781615735457 1615735453 7d9306f6-f893-4710-b9e0-b9ed49e8fee1 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 453981 OverDrive (Product ID) 453981 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Meyer, Deon. Blood Safari [Libby]. HighBridge Company, 2010. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 318MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 318MB. Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. "Meyer, who writes in Afrikaans, is far and away the best crime writer in South Africa. The action is as exciting as any reader of thrillers has a right to demand. The writing is fluent and coherent and full of insight into the problems of South Africa. As Meyer writes, money and poverty and greed do not lie well together. But they make a hell of a thriller.". HTML:—Matthew Lewin, Guardian. "Pulsating and gripping.". HTML:—The Sunday Times. HTML:"Blood Safari is my first exposure to the man billed by his publishers as the 'king of South African crime thrillers'. For once the publicity spinners are not guilty of hyperbole—Meyer is simply excellent.". — Business Day. HTML:"Meyer is a serious writer who richly deserves the international reputation he has built. Blood Safari manages to be both an exciting read and an eye-opening portrait of a nation with problems perhaps even more complex and agonizing than our own.". HTML:—Washington Post. "Top-notch.". HTML:—Kirkus Reviews. "The action comes fast and furious . . . a terrific and unusual thriller, the fifth of Meyer's novels . . . each of which has been better than the last.". HTML:—Mary Whipple, Seeing the World Through Books. "A big, sexy novel . . . two compelling characters, Lemmer and Emma le Roux—but there's another character and that's contemporary South Africa itself. You've got race, reconciliation, resentment, environment, tourism—they're all propelling this novel along.". —The World, NPR. "Meyer's stellar stand-alone thriller delivers muscular prose with a hero to match.". HTML:—Publishers Weekly [starred review]. "South African bestseller Deon Meyer's greatest strength lies in his keen ability to create flawed characters clawing their way towards personal redemption . . . Deon Meyer is hot property . . . exotic locales, searing prose, and a protagonist who flies off the pages.". HTML:— Madison County Herald. "In his signature style, Meyer delivers a stinging critique of contemporary South African society by vivifying the tensions between native Africans, conservationists, and corporate profiteers...the crisp action scenes are never less than thrilling. A solid addition to the prizewinning crime novelist's growing body of work.". HTML:— Booklist. "Deon Meyer's novels explore the complex reality of South Africa, a world little known to many of us. At the most obvious level, they are exciting stories of crime, conflict and revenge, but they are more than that: ambitious attempts to show us the pain and greatness of a troubled nation that is still being born.". HTML:— Miami Herald. Emma, a business consultant, is convinced someone is trying to kill her, so she hires a bodyguard. The guardian, a quiet man named Lemmer, accompanies her on a quest to learn whether her long-lost brother is alive. During her search in the South African bush it becomes clear that Emma is indeed in danger. Simon Vance builds the tension with tone, pacing, and inflection. Meyer's forte is character development, in particular the character of Lemmer. Vance reveals a man who slowly brings down his emotional wall as he tells his own story. Overall, Vance keeps the action going and applies distinctive touches for friends and foes. M.B. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine. AudioFile Magazine. HTML:From the king of South African crime thrillers. A bodyguard and the woman who has hired him to protect her are drawn into a dark mystery steeped in the ethos of South Africa. Lemmer is a professional bodyguard. Silent, invisible, he never gets involved. Emma le Roux is convinced she's seen her brother on the news as a suspect in the recent killing of four poachers. But her brother is supposed to have died twenty years ago. When le Roux hires Lemmer to watch her back while she goes looking for answers, it becomes clear someone wants to keep them in the dark. And when that someone tries to murder them both, for once in his life Lemmer steps out of the shadows.. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-06 14:05:22. Vance, Simon. ©2007 Deon Meyer. Translation ©2007 K. L. 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