Deon Meyer | TripFiction

Navigation

Blogs in February 2022

The Dark Flood 15th February 2022

‘The undisputed champion of South African crime’ – Wilbur Smith One last chance. Almost fired for insubordination, detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido find themselves demoted, exiled from the elite Hawks unit and dispatched to the leafy streets of...

Fever 6th May 2017

Nico Storm and his father Willem drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. They are among the few in South Africa–and the world, as far as they know–to have survived a devastating virus which has...

Cobra 20th August 2014

Why would a mathematics professor from Cambridge University, renting a holiday home outside Cape Town, require a false identity and three bodyguards? And where is he, now that they are dead? The only clue to the bodyguards’ murder is...

Dead Before Dying 1st January 1970

The setting isCape Town in the months after the ANC has come to power and the changes are beginning to be felt. Matt Joubert has lost his wife and is grabbling with weight and alcohol problems – he is...

Trackers 1st January 1970

A housewife running from years of domestic abuse. A bodyguard hired to escort a smuggled rhinoceros. A group of Islamic terrorists based in a quiet residential street. A secret government agency threatened with amalgamation within a bigger department. A...