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Blood Safari

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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.
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    • AudioFile Magazine
      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
    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 20, 2010
      Simon Vance provides an assortment of authentic-sounding Afrikaans accents (think Scottish with a Germanic edge) for this first-class thriller that manages to include South African history and musings on apartheid and the environment without losing a beat of its feverish pacing. Meyer's novel is essentially one relentless chase across South Africa, with hard-boiled bodyguard Martin Lemmer and his beautiful client, Emma le Roux, on the run from a team of paramilitary killers possibly hired by her brother. For Lemmer, the book's narrator, Vance uses a tough, terse delivery that nails the character as a South African version of Lee Child's Jack Reacher. And he's just as on target in crafting variations of his accent for the rest of the cast. Men, women, white, black, friends and foes, Vance has their vocal number. An Atlantic Monthly hardcover.

    • Library Journal

      Starred review from January 1, 2011

      A South African bodyguard assigned to a beautiful young Afrikaner woman looking for a brother long thought dead wonders why she even needs protection--until a shocking act of violence thrusts him into a world of almost unimaginable greed and intrigue. In this taut thriller, celebrated crime novelist Meyer (www.deonmeyer.com) takes his characters into South Africa's game reserves. Though the book does contain scenes of brutal violence, its lurid-sounding title is misleading; it might more accurately be described as a journey into the troubled psychology of postapartheid South Africa. Ably narrated by Simon Vance (see Behind the Mike, LJ 11/15/08), this first-person tale--a best seller in Germany and South Africa, where it won the inaugural ATKV Prize for suspense fiction--offers a penetrating and often surprising look into modern South Africa that makes for compelling listening. Highly recommended. [The Atlantic Monthly hc also received a starred review, LJ 8/09; the mass market pb is available through Grove Pr.--Ed.]--R. Kent Rasmussen, Thousand Oaks, CA

      Copyright 2011 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from July 13, 2009
      Set mainly in the game preserves of South Africa, Meyer's stellar stand-alone thriller delivers muscular prose with a hero to match. When three masked men break into the Cape Town home of Emma le Roux on Christmas Eve, Emma manages to escape over the wall into her neighbor's yard. Emma fears the attack may be connected to recent evidence that her brother, Jacobus, who she thought died 20 years before while serving as a temporary game ranger, is actually alive. She hires professional bodyguard Martin Lemmer to protect her while she investigates. Lemmer is a true original, tough, with a checkered past, a restless inquiring mind and the skills to thwart the masked thugs who are determined to kill his client. After Emma is severely injured, Lemmer goes on the offensive, bent on revenge and determined to solve the ever-widening mystery that threatens to kill them both. Once again, Meyer (Devil's Peak
      ) shows he's a writer not to be missed.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 29, 2010
      Simon Vance provides an assortment of authentic-sounding Afrikaans accents (think Scottish with a Germanic edge) for this first-class thriller that manages to include South African history and musings on apartheid and the environment without losing a beat of its feverish pacing. Meyer’s novel is essentially one relentless chase across South Africa, with hard-boiled bodyguard Martin Lemmer and his beautiful client, Emma le Roux, on the run from a team of paramilitary killers possibly hired by her brother. For Lemmer, the book’s narrator, Vance uses a tough, terse delivery that nails the character as a South African version of Jack Reacher. And he’s just as on target in crafting variations of that accent for the rest of the cast. Men, women, white, black, friends and foes, Vance has their vocal number. An Atlantic Monthly hardcover (Reviews, July 13).

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