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Dead at Daybreak (Mat Joubert #1.5)

Deon Meyer

Paperback | Pages: 487 pages

Rating: 4.03 | 1604 Users | 117 Reviews

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Original Title:	Dead at Daybreak
ISBN:	0316154628 (ISBN13: 9780316154628)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Mat Joubert #1.5, Thobela Mpayipheli #0.5
Literary Awards:	ATKV Award for Prose (2001), Prix Mystère de la Critique for Best Foreign Novel (2004)

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When Johannes Jacobus Smit, an antiques dealer, is found burned with a blowtorch and killed execution-style with a single shot to the back of the head, former cop Zatopek "Zed" van Heerden is called in to investigate the unusual circumstances of the murder. Zed is still obsessed with the betrayals of his own past but must fill in the blanks of this victim's life. Who tortured and killed Smit, and who was Smit in the first place? Not the man whose papers he carries, that much is certain. Zed can never be sure of the loyalties of the people with whom he is dealing--his own past reputation ensures that--and he soon finds himself uncovering secrets that the security services of many countries would like left alone.

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Title	:	Dead at Daybreak (Mat Joubert #1.5)
Author	:	Deon Meyer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 487 pages
Published	:	May 1st 2006 by Little Brown and Company (first published 1998)
Categories	:	Mystery. Crime. Thriller. Cultural. Africa. Fiction. Southern Africa. South Africa. Suspense

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Ratings: 4.03 From 1604 Users | 117 Reviews

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Up to his usual standard. The first half was fantastic: 5-star with amazing back stories and real empathy for these characters and I was engrossed. The second half wasn't quite so good and became more formulaic and lost its sensitivity to some degree so this part 4 - star. So 4.5 stars overall. The main character Zatopek is one of Meyer's best characters ever and his personal story alone made it all worthwhile.

Zatopek van Heerden is an embittered,hard drinking ex-cop who finds himself in jail after picking a fight with five men in a bar ("you can tell a man his 4 X 4 isn't going to make his prick any larger and he pretends to be deaf. But drag in his wife....") He is sprung from jail by his attorney friend, Kemp who wants him to look into an unsolved murder.Particularly,van Heerden has to find the murder victim's missing will.With very little to go on,van Heerden reluctantly finds himself drawn into

Enjoyed this book, new author for me. well translated. good read....

Nice storyline, a few good characters and an unpredictable plot.Lost one star for every time I rolled my eyes whenever a female character got mentioned...sadly that's getting very, very predictable...

Most excellentThis was a vacation read. I will have to look up the author, can't believe I have not come across him before.So, this story is multi-layered. The characters have depth and are well written. They are relatable, very interesting, smart, and vulnerable. The story is also complex, crosses over generations, socio-economic and cultural classes. It's a good mystery. You can think you have an idea of what is happening, but it is just out of your grasp. And at the end of is all explained

A solid crime novel with a story within a story. I liked how the story truly starts to unravel only towards the end and the reader isn't made to feel like they missed something earlier on when the bad guys are revealed. Zatopek van Heerden is a former cop, now a freelance private detective of sorts who is hired to find a missing will. He has a week to figure out why a man who didn't even exist a few years earlier was murdered and his will stolen. The premise is what got me, and it carried

The country of South Africa is the exotic and fascinating background to Deon Meyer's thrillers. His books are filled with names and places in the Afrikaans and traditional languages: Mzimkhulu, Mpayipheli, Van Heerden, de Jager, Groote Schur, Gerhardus Basson. I loved trying to pronounce these words. They sound so beautiful and rare in my attempts at verbalization. The book also deals with contemporary issues in South Africa, especially racism. Mr. Meyer has again created a top level thriller