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Blood Safari
Blood Safari
Blood Safari
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Blood Safari

Written by Deon Meyer

Narrated by Simon Vance

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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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.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 12, 2010
ISBN9781615735457
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Deon Meyer

Internasionaal bekende skrywer Deon Meyer woon op Stellenbosch. Sy publikasies sluit in dertien misdaadromans (onder meer Spoor, 2010, 7 Dae, 2011, Kobra, 2013, Ikarus, 2015, Koors, 2016, Prooi, 2018, en Donkerdrif, 2020). Orion, Proteus en Infanta is met die ATKV-prosaprys bekroon en Prooi met die ATKV-prys vir Spanningsfiksie.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Young and beautiful Emma Le Roux thought she needed a body guard after at least two masked men broke into her South African home and tried to kill her. How does she know they wanted to kill her? They weren't looking to steal anything and they weren't typical vandals, so who were they exactly? What was their motive to harm her, someone with seemingly no known enemies? Was it a coincidence the violence arrived on her doorstep only after she starting asking questions about seeing her dead brother on television? In her mind she had a right to question what she saw for all she knew he had been dead for twenty years. According to to news program he was wanted for murder. Did Emma's brother really brutally gun down four poachers? To find out the truth she enlists the help of Martin Lemmer, employed by the protection agency, Body Armor.Lemmer, as he prefers to be called, is your typical strong, silent-type bodyguard. He has rules he refers to as "Lemmer Laws" that supposedly cannot be broken and yet he has a way of breaking them. The first Lemmer law is Don't Get Involved with a client. He breaks that one almost immediately when he doesn't believe Emma's story and he lets his body guard down. Emma is nearly killed on his watch. Someone out there wants her dead in the worst way. Now Lemmer has gone from protecting Emma to seeking revenge on whoever hurt her.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I suppose this would be called a thriller rather than a detective novel, although there is certainly detection to be done. Written by an Afrikaaner (originally in Afrikaans) it is nevertheless quite a fair representation of the post-1994 rainbow nation. It enters the arcane world of bodyguards and ends with a surprise involvement in one of the key political (and military) moments of the southern African liberation struggle. Well worth reading.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Loved the suspense in the book...the only real problem I had is that is just ended there was no real good conclusion or closure to the characters
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A new author for me. I was really looking forward to the Meyer books, but it took me a little while to get into this one. The main character didn't speak for like 123 pages, all expression was through his thoughts... which were many and varied. Ultimately it was a good and complex story, I liked all the characters good and bad particularly Jeanette Louw, and it incorporated numerous nuances of South African life and history. Well worth reading.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    An interesting story. I liked that. I was reading along and, suddenly, in the middle, there is a reasonably graphic sexual encounter. Then the bad guys come in and the language of the book changed dramatically. I guess the author was trying to show us they were bad guys because they swore so much. I would recommend the book, but be aware of the language.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Blurb......





    LEMMER is a professional bodyguard. Silent and invisible, he never gets involved.

    EMMA LE ROUX believed her brother died twenty years ago, until she sees him on the news as the prime suspect in the brutal killing of four poachers.

    As Lemmer and Emma join forces in pursuit of the truth, it soon becomes clear that someone is willing to do whatever it takes to stop them.

    When that someone tries to murder them both, Lemmer is forced to step out of the shadows for the first time in his life.

    I must admit, I had minimal expectations when opening this up. I previously read Meyer’s Trackers back in the middle of 2012, and whilst it was enjoyable, I sort of had the feeling that I didn’t enjoy it as much as I should have, particularly when looking around the web at other bloggers reviews. I couldn’t shift the feeling of “is that it?”


    This time around I have to say Meyer impressed me no end. South Africa with its landscape of sprawling, vast grasslands, nature reserves and dusty veldt and its recent political history of apartheid and the subsequent dismantling of the white minority led state provides a rich back-drop for the novel.
    Emma le Roux is seeking answers about her long-lost brother after a brief sighting of a photo on a news bulletin. Her interest, 20 years after his disappearance sets off an increasingly violent chain of events. After an unsuccessful home invasion and some threats received over the phone, she hires Lemmer for protection while she tries to establish whether the man wanted for the brutal slaying of poachers is her brother.


    Lemmer, Meyer’s main character is interesting; a former bodyguard for government ministers but now after a period inside for manslaughter he’s working in the private sector. Solitary, aloof and fiery, with a barely repressed penchant for violence he’s one of my favourite protagonists figuring in my recent reads of the last couple of months or so.
    Meyer mixes the plot well, expertly weaving into the narrative recent South African history with its volatile neighbour, Mozambique, as well as eco warriors-cum- terrorists fighting against developers and tribal land claims. Economics and social and racial tensions are all combined together to provide a compelling read.


    I still have another of his books unread – Devil’s Peak which I will need to get to soon in the hope that it lives up to the standard of this one.
    His full bibliography is as follows;
    Benny Griessel – series
    1. Devil's Peak (2007)
    aka Infanta
    2. Thirteen Hours (2010)
    3. 7 Days (2012)


    Novels
    Dead Before Dying (1999)
    Dead at Daybreak (2000)
    aka Orion
    Heart of the Hunter (2003)
    Blood Safari (2009)
    Trackers (2011


    5 from 5
    Borrowed from my local library in Leighton Buzzard
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Really quite good for a detective-type story. Although Meyer's excursions into animal facts, South African history etc. were rather too long, I enjoyed them for the details they provided. Excellent translation.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Blood Safari is the first Deon Meyer I have read and I will read others from him. I know next to nothing about Africa, and never had much interest in changing that. There is a lot to enjoy in this book. The plot of BS is very interesting, the search for a brother, believed dead, who may or may not have resurfaced after many years. The setting for BS is mostly the far northeastern corner of South Africa where Kruger National Park and Wildlife Preserve borders Mozambique. Yes, there is a scene, a great scene, with a critter I wouldn't expect to encounter in downtown Mclean, Virginia, and I suggest you don't read that late at night; you'll know it when you get there. The story is well told, the pace is excellent, Meyer does a great job of building tension for a number of scenes, and you absorb a lot of African history without having been lectured. I liked the characters very much, and would like to read another Meyer book with the same protagonist - hopefully there'll be one in the future. There were a few things which didn't work for me in the book. Our hero bodyguard goes a bit Rambo toward the end, but thankfully didn't cross the line of turning the book into another action/thriller story. There was a long segment during which two storylines were interwoven and I thought it was unnecessarily confusing and didn't add anything versus a more straight forward approach. Finally, I thought the corporate evil cum confession was a bit too 70's. All in all, I recommend this highly.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    First Line: I swung the sledge hammer in a lazy rhythm.Emma Le Roux is getting dressed when her Cape Town home is broken into by three masked men. She manages to get away, and she's convinced that the break-in has something to do with her brother Jacobus, a man whom everyone believes has been dead for twenty years. Emma hires professional bodyguard Martin Lemmer to protect her while she investigates. Lemmer is a true tough guy with a checkered past and the skills that would normally keep Emma safe, but when she's critically injured Lemmer commits himself to finishing her investigation even though his own life is now in danger.This book grabbed me by the throat and would not let go. The translation is beautifully done, and the settings on the game preserves of South Africa lend the perfect note of the exotic. If you're leery of snakes, there is one scene in this book that could give you nightmares. I didn't have nightmares, but I certainly was jumpy for an hour or two after reading it. (I can still get nervy just writing about it!)Lemmer is a fascinating character, and not just because he has a questionable past. He has prejudices-- he willingly admits to them-- but when he's shown that he was wrong to think that way, he's a person who can admit his mistakes, apologize, and learn from them.Meyer's plot is well-woven and moves like a wildfire. I did not want to put this book down. I had to know how this cast of characters fit together. I had to know what was going to happen next.Above the fast-moving plot, above the intricately drawn characters, is the land of South Africa. Meyer gives strangers to his country a well-seasoned taste of life in that land-- not only for humans, but also for the animals in that unique area of planet Earth.I don't read that many thrillers because the ones I have read tend to skimp on elements that I consider to be very important: characterization and setting. It's been my experience that thrillers are all about plot. Deon Meyer has made me see that this "ain't necessarily so." There can be thrillers with rich settings that you can see and hear and taste. There can be thrillers with characters so well-drawn that you feel as if you know them. There can be because I've just read one-- Deon Meyer's Blood Safari.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I suppose this would be called a thriller rather than a detective novel, although there is certainly detection to be done. Written by an Afrikaaner (originally in Afrikaans) it is nevertheless quite a fair representation of the post-1994 rainbow nation. It enters the arcane world of bodyguards and ends with a surprise involvement in one of the key political (and military) moments of the southern African liberation struggle. Well worth reading.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This book's simplistic writing almost turned me off in the beginning. However, I soon got caught up in the story and its characters. Set in South Africa and involving lost family members, tribal warfare, government corruption and secret forces, this one will sweep you up. Doesn't hurt that I'm already a little fascinated by South Africa. Not a bad adventure with a touch of romance.