"At a guest house in the beautiful Franschhoek wine valley, a famous English mathematician is kidnapped and his two bodyguards are killed. It's clearly a professional hit, and the spent shell cases offer a chilling clue: Each is engraved with the head of a spitting cobra. Meanwhile, in Cape Town, a skilled young thief is using his talents to put his sister through college. Then one day he picks the wrong pocket, grabbing the wallet of a young American...

Freelance bodyguard Lemmer goes against his first rule--don't get involved--when a wealthy farmer asks for his help smuggling a pair of rare black rhinos out of Zimbabwe, where they're murdered for their horns. Before he knows it, he's in a small airplane, zipping across the border, an airsickness bag in his hand and a military grade shotgun at his feet. But trouble finds Lemmer on a deserted road in Zimbabwe that night.

A cold case reaches from Cape Town's shadowy past to bucolic Bordeaux, France, in this thriller by the Barry Award-winning author of Thirteen Hours. When a cold case dossier lands on Captain Benny Griessel's desk, he and his partner Vaughn Cupido, a fellow member of the Hawks elite police unit in South Africa, reluctantly set to work reviewing the evidence. Did ex-cop Johnson Johnson simply disappear on the world's most luxurious train line-or was...

Six-foot five-inch Thobela "Tiny" Mpayipheli was once a feared freedom fighter, trained by the Stasi and KGB. Now, he's a family man working in a garage in post-apartheid South Africa. But when the daughter of one of Tiny's former associates comes to him with a desperate plea, he finds himself returning to his violent former life. With his old friend Johnny being held hostage, Tiny agrees to do whatever it takes to get him back safely. But as he races...

Detective Griessel must solve a cold case to stop a shooter in this thriller from the acclaimed South African author. Two police officers have been shot, and the Cape Town homicide department has received emails from the shooter alleging the cover-up of an unsolved murder. If the cold case isn't reopened immediately, the shooter's carnage will continue. Now Det. Capt. Benny Griessel is out to solve the crime in question: the murder of an ambitious...

A young woman makes a terrible confession to a priest. An honorable man takes his own revenge for an unspeakable tragedy. An aging inspector tries to get himself sober while taking on the most difficult case of his career. From this beginning, Deon Meyer weaves a story of astonishing complexity and suspense, as Inspector Benny Griessel faces off against a dangerous vigilante who has everything on his side, including public sympathy. A gruesome abuse...

Wer hoch fliegt ... Bennie Griessel war ein trockener Alkoholiker - bis zu dem Tag vor Weihnachten, als ein Freund seine Familie und sich selbst erschießt. Er beginnt wieder zu trinken, und als seine Kollegen ihn suchen, sitzt er im Gefängnis. Dabei hat Bennie einen neuen, spektakulären Fall. Ein Mann wird stranguliert an einem Strand aufgefunden. Ernst Richter hatte ein besonderes Geschäftsmodell. Allen, die fremdgehen wollten, versprach er,...

Jäger oder Beute Bennie Griessel plant zu heiraten - und muss sich dann um einen Fall kümmern, der eigentlich zu den Akten gelegt werden soll. Ein ehemaliger Polizist wurde in einem Luxuszug ermordet, und die geheimen Sicherheitsbehörden Südafrikas tun alles, um es nach einem Selbstmord aussehen zu lassen. Als ein zweiter Todesfall ebenfalls vertuscht werden soll, bekommt Griessel eine Ahnung davon, dass es um viel mehr geht als um Mord. Gewisse...

An antiques dealer robbed and killed, and the only clues are a scrap of blank paper and the unusual weapon used. Now ex-cop Zatopek Zed' van Heerden has fourteen days in which to fill in the blanks in this dead man's pasta past which only seems to begin in 1983.