Devil's peak : a novel / Deon Meyer ; translated by K.L. Seegers.
Former mercenary Thobela Mpayipheli is trying to live a peaceful life, but these plans are shattered when his eight-year-old son, Pakamile, is shot dead. The two gunmen responsible escape before sentencing, and the grieving father decides to take matters into his own hands. As he pursues his son's killers, Mpayipheli begins to target pedophiles and other perpetrators of violence against children, meting out justice with a Xhosa tribal sword called an assegai.Dubbed Artemis by the papers as the killings increase, Mpayipheli becomes a kind of folk hero to the people of Capetown. Insp. Benny Griessel, an aging alcoholic whose struggles with the bottle have all but cost him his family and his life, works the case with a desperate intensity. Griessel finds an unlikely ally in Christine van Rooyen, a young prostitute, who lures the detective into a very dangerous plan of her own when her young daughter goes missing.
Record details
- ISBN: 031601785X
- ISBN: 9780316017855
- Physical Description: 409 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First United States edition
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown, 2008.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "First published in English in 2007 by Hodder and Stoughton ... and in Afrikaans by LAPA in 2004 under the title Infanta"--title page verso.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Seegers, K. L
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | FIC MEYER (Text) | 36015000329595 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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