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reviewsDevil's Peak: A Novel
Deon Meyer Devil's Peak is a murder mystery/thriller set in South Africa. It is essentially three stories about three separate people whose lives converge along the way. The author jumps back and forth between the separate stories, sometimes in separate paragraphs on the same page. It can be quite startling and frustrating, having to stop and wonder for a moment just who he is writing about now. Further editing could make the reading less choppy. The three main characters are an alcoholic detective, a man on a mission to track down and kill child molesters and killers (illegally), and a woman with a small child who works in the sex trade, hoping to get enough money to “retire” in a nice house with her child. The child “avenger” uses an old-fashioned assegai, a type of spear. The press calls him “Artemis,” and people have mixed feelings about him murdering the child-killers. Some people are glad that he is ridding society of them faster than the police can catch them. There is much suspense in the book, bloody murders, violence, profanity, revenge, tracking the killers, forgiveness, insights into South African police methods, and dynamics between whites and blacks in that country. It is written (or translated) in English, and sometimes some of the words will be unfamiliar to Americans. Sprinkled throughout are song lyrics and other words in a language foreign to us. With “Devil’s Peak,” Deon Meyer has written a good, suspenseful book that keeps you intrigued and reading right to the end.
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