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Bezig met laden... Duivelspiek (2004)door Deon Meyer
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 4,5 Sterne für diesen gelungenen Einstieg! ( ) The was a really interesting story. A bit confusing at first, it is 3 different stories and it is told from 3 points of view and in the beginning the stories don’t seem connected. The author also makes the from story to story and the different points of view, not at the chapter level but from paragraph to paragraph. The story takes place in Cape Town South Africa And was originally written in Afrikaans. An alcoholic cop about to lose it all A prostitute who is ready to give up A serial killer killing those the justice system should have killed. Read the book to see how they connect. Acabado el Apartheid, Thobela Mpayipheli por fin se ha podido refugiar en el anonimato. Vive junto al hijo que ha adoptado, una vez que desde el Gobierno y la Policía le han dejado en paz. Hasta que en una gasolinera su vida se tuerce de nuevo. Hace frente a dos atracadores, pero matan al niño. Detenidos y encarcelados, los dos delincuentes lograrán sin embargo escapar. Thobela, el cazador, el poderoso guerrero xhosa y temido ex agente de la KGB y la Stasi, no se quedará con los brazos cruzados. Huele la sangre y quiere justicia, pero esa otra justicia que poco tiene que ver con la legalidad: la justicia moral, la venganza infinita. Benny Griessel, un inspector al borde del más vergonzante de los castigos: ser expulsado por su mujer a patadas de su propia casa por borracho, deberá impedir que Thobela siga ejecutando a pedófilos y asesinos de niños. Pero el secuestro del hijo de Benny dará un giro a su destino. ¿Y si en vez de entregar a Thobela a cambio, como le piden, se alía con él? La aparición de Christine le dará la respuesta que necesita. A veces la única esperanza posible está teñida de sangre. ¿Pero es necesario? I was really excited to find another Deon Meyer book... and then supremely disappointed almost as soon as I opened it up and started reading. The story isn't horrible, and a lot of the elements I really liked including the ending, but as a whole it wasn't great. It was also hard to follow since all the separate pieces were distributed in short passages all jumbled together in the first third of the book; it did not flow for me. My copy clocks in at 406 pages, and it seems like half of them were devoted to Benny Griessel's alcoholism. I guess it makes sense on some level, but I quickly tired of the battles with the bottle and the "I could have been someone" endless mind-chatter and soul searching. You have to read the book to understand the context, but it wasn’t until page 179 that I found a part I really liked; what I considered to be quintessential Meyer, but maybe I just don't know his writing all that well. In any case, I thought this exchange was great: "Do me a favor, Doc. Tell him it was the mannequin." "The mannequin." "Yes. Tell him the man fell against the mannequin and the mannequin fell on the cash register." "I will tell him." "Thanks, Doc," said Griessel, and turned to the commissioner, who nodded and turned away. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Om sy lewe terug te kry, moet speurder-inspekteur Bennie Griessel vir Artemis keer: die vigilante wat besig is om misdaad teen kinders met 'n lang lem te wreek. Met die media wat skree, politici wat druk toepas, 'n span onbeholpe jong speurders en kollegas wat hom in die rug steek, stel Bennie 'n lokval. Maar hy het nie rekening gehou met die liefde van 'n sekswerker vir haar kind, die haat van die Sangrenegra-dwelmkartel en sy eie smagting na die helende kragte van die bottel nie. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)839.3636Literature German literature and literatures of related languages Other Germanic literatures Netherlandish literatures Afrikaans Afrikaans fiction 2000–LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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