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Books > Local Author Showcase > Fiction - adults > Thriller
Bennie Griessel is eerste op die toneel: ’n bloedbad in ’n luukse gastehuis op ’n Franschhoek-wynplaas. Drie slagoffers van ’n geheimsinnige, blitsige, meedoënlose huurmoordenaar genaamd Die Kobra. Kan Griessel hom keer voordat hy weer toeslaan? Want daar was boonop ’n ontvoering . . . Ene Paul Anthony Morris, Britse burger met ’n splinternuwe paspoort. Maar wie is dié man werklik? Voeg hierby ’n grypdief wat onwetend iets steel wat aan Die Kobra behoort, en ’n intelligensiediens wat hul neus in Griessel se sake wil steek. Spanning en intrige uit die boonste rakke, soos net Suid-Afrika se misdaadverhaal-koning dit kan skryf!
The CIA have approached IA3 with a strange request; the participation of an assassin in a covert operation in the USA. How does a rogue US Senator feature in the plot and how are the Russians involved? Will the CIA double cross Bataleur and how is the FBI involved? The poaching of the abalone in South Africa has reached alarming proportions in recent years. Unscrupulous criminals rape the sea beds in search of the delicacy. Bataleur and the IA3 team expose and do battle with an evil Chinese gang and with local gangsters. Bataleur and the team need all of their skills to undertake the operation and ensure that they are in control.
Universiteit van Johannesburg Debuutprys vir Skeppende Skryfkuns (2010) M-Net Letterkundetoekenning in die rolprentkategorie (2010) Inspekteur Albertus Beeslaar het genoeg gehad van die brutaliteit van misdaad in Johannesburg. Hy kom soek rus en vrede op ’n klein dorpie aan die rand van die Kalahari, waar hy ’n nuwe veediefstal-eenheid op die been moet bring. Dan word ’n grusame dubbele moord op ’n plaas gepleeg. Gou kry Beeslaar egter met veel meer as ’n “gewone plaasmoord” te doen. Hy word gekonfronteer met ’n koelbloedige veediefstalsindikaat, Afrika-towerkuns, ’n ou grondeis in ‘n plofbare politieke klimaat wat deur ’n regse wit vigilantegroep uitgebuit word. En dit is maar net die begin. ’n Naelkou-misdaadroman met ’n nuwe, eg Suid-Afrikaanse speurheld. Plaasmoord is in Nederlands vertaal as Moord op Huilwater.
’n Koelbloedige moord by die Kaapse Waterfront. Wat dalk verband hou met geheimsinnige briewe wat geskorste luitenante Bennie Griessel en Vaughn Cupido ontvang het. Maar eers moet Bennie-hulle op Stellenbosch soek na ’n verdwene student, en die spoor vat van die eiendomsagent wat die kooptransaksie van Donkerdrif, korporatiewe swendelaar Jasper Boonstra se peperduur wynplaas, behartig het. Stadigaan besef die speurders al hul ondersoeke het ’n gemene deler: die donkerste drif, gierigheid.
An ancient fallen angel is discovered. All hell is about to break loose. In the year 2233, a mysterious pulsating energy source from Antarctica leads to the discovery of a chained fallen angel deep in the icy trenches of the earth. Micah, a Commander with the Europe, Middle East & Africa Search and Rescue, is feared dead after he plummets down a shaft during this exploratory mission. Lydia refuses to believe that he’s gone and launches her own risky mission with his teammates to retrieve what might be left of the man she loves. In secret, another dark alliance gathers with their own evil agenda. Demonic entities noticed the discovery of the fallen angel too and plan to use his powers to access an ancient, sealed scroll. Their goal is to reverse Revelation prophecies and bring about their own terrifying version of the apocalypse. Lydia finds herself in the middle of a treacherous race and an ancient battle that spans back to Day Six of Creation. Will she find Micah alive? And will they be able to save the world from this supernatural onslaught? Only time will tell if all will be lost in the great divide between good and evil.
When the former assassin, Zikhona, wakes up next to a dead body in an affluent Johannesburg suburb, she knows of only one person who can clean up her mess, uncle Zenzele. The incident unravels ghosts of the past, forcing the Z Gang to crawl out of their Mozambican hideout. It is not only Zikhona’s situation that is intricate but the gang’s wealth back home is threatened by the torching of their taxis. They are also about to lose their millions through the elaborate laundering syndicate of a murderous underworld mobster while also nursing a terminally-ill member. Zenzele resorts to the only thing he knows best – guns, treachery and dark powers – while unleashing his battle-hardened gang to fend off the police and the underworld mobsters chasing Zikhona hell-bent on forcing her back into her contract-killing past. Her marriage to a flamboyant Nigerian pastor hits the skids. With fewer friends and desperate to save their millions, Zenzele is forced to tap deep into the reserves of old connections, where loyalties still hold. His knack to keep everyone in his debt reaches its pinnacle. Staying alive would take ingenuity, conniving, outsmarting the SAPS crime intelligence and a Police Minister, desperate to save his political career. However, discovering that their enemies are closer to home than they had thought is the ultimate betrayal.
Daar is ’n klop aan die deur. My vinger wil nie verder saamtrek nie. My hart hamer die sekondes in my ore om. Wat sal gebeur as ek die sneller trek? Johan is negentien en in die weermag. Wanneer die adjudant hom inlig dat hy na Seksie C in die Zambesivallei gestuur word om onreëlmatige ontgroening te ondersoek, pak ’n ongekende opgewondenheid hom beet. Maar dit is korte duur, want Johan besef gou hy is nie opgewasse teen die weermag nie. Ter ontvlugting besoek Johan pasnaweke sy ouer neef Ben in Pretoria. Ben, die rebelse seun van die generaal. Ben wat sy eie oorlog veg. Die Generaal is ’n onthutsende, oorrompelende en aangrypende verhaal wat die absurditeit van die Grensoorlog en die verwoestende impak daarvan op jong mans se lewens met sensitiwiteit teken.
Barry James is detained in a quarantine facility in the blistering heat of the Great Karoo. Here he exists in two worlds: the discordant and unforgiving reality of his incarceration and the lyrical, snowy landscapes of his dreams. He has cut all ties with his previous life, his health is failing, and he has given up all hope. All he has to cling to are the meanderings of his restless mind, the daily round of pills and the journals he reluctantly keeps as testimony to a life once lived. And then there’s an opportunity to escape. But to escape what? And where to? Can there be a life to go back to? Is there still a world out there in the barren wasteland beyond the fence?
Waarheen sal die donker spoor hom lei?
It is 1989, a high point of hope in South Africa’s political history. The nation is abuzz with rumours of Nelson Mandela’s imminent release, the dismantling of guerrilla camps and the possibility of peace. A band of exiled People’s Army soldiers returns to South Africa. After years in Angola they think the change they have been fighting for is finally about to become a reality. They have been ordered to carry and deliver a sealed trunk to an unspecified destination. It is a mission that makes them a target as different parties set out to separate the men from the trunk and its mysterious contents, setting the stage for several fierce conflicts. The Texture of Shadows explores a world of hardened guerrilla fighters, corrupt police officers, ex-political prisoners and the victims of abuse of a system of bannings and beatings. But there are also cracks in this steel-edged world that hope, love and beauty can fill as the reader is swept up in the story of Chaplain Nerissa Rodrigues and her fellow soldiers.
The enigmatic and darkly compelling Harry O'Connor, better known as Badger, is back in a fourth gripping crime thriller from Amanda Coetzee. This time the Major Crimes detective must pit his skills and wits and his dedicated team against a deadly sniper whose dark past in Afghanistan and South Africa has come back to haunt the streets of Bedford as they explode in an unprecedented drug war. The ex-sniper from the British Armed Forces is a suspect in a series of killings and, despite the unusual affinity that Badger feels for the man, he must put aside his own devastating personal loss to track him down - from the rooftops of Bedford to the diamond auctions of the North West province in South Africa - to prevent the body count from climbing any higher.
A cold case for Captain Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido of the Hawks elite police unit - not what they were looking for. And a difficult case, too. The body of Johnson Johnson, ex-cop, has been found beside a railway line. He appears to have jumped from South Africa's - perhaps the world's - most luxurious train, and two suspicious characters seen with him have disappeared into thin air. The regular police have already failed to make progress and others are intent on muddying the waters. Meanwhile in Bordeaux, Daniel Darret is settled in a new life on a different continent. A quiet life. But his skills as an international hit-man are required one more time, and Daniel is given no choice in the matter. He must hunt again - his prey the corrupt president of his homeland. Three strands of the same story become entwined in a ferocious race against time - for the Hawks to work out what lies behind the death of Johnson, for Daniel to evade the relentless Russian agents tracking him, for Benny Griessel to survive long enough to take another huge step in his efforts to piece together again the life he nearly destroyed - and finally ask Alexa Bernard to marry him. The Last Hunt shows one of the great crime writers operating at the peak of his powers. (Released as Prooi in Afrikaans)
Ellie McKenna likes her new, quiet life in the countryside. She has time to reflect on the death of her dad, that fateful night at the police roadblock, and to recover from her physical and psychological scars - the result of her last mission. Here in her safe haven she even finds time to help out as church organist. But when they finally - inevitably - track her down, she knows that she'll need to find out who is looking for her, and why. The keenly anticipated sequel to Blindside.
The Woman in the Blue Cloak is a brilliant novella which will thrill and entertain fans of Deon Meyer's much-loved detective Benny Griessel. Benny Griessel is a cop on a mission: he plans to ask Alexa Bernard to marry him. That means he needs to buy an engagement ring - and that means he needs a loan. So Benny has a lot on his mind when he is called to a top-priority murder case. A woman's body is discovered, naked and washed in bleach, draped on a wall beside a picturesque road above Cape Town. The identity of the victim is a mystery, as is the reason for her killing. Gradually, Benny and his colleague Vaughn Cupido begin to work out the roots of the story, which reach as far away as England and Holland... and as far back as the seventeenth century.
Dinge ontrafel vinnig wanneer iemand speuradjudant Storm van der Merwe se ma voor ’n trein op Paddington-stasie instamp. Storm moet Londen toe, al is sy tot oor haar ore met ’n moordsaak: Beebee Bukelwa Babu, befaamde Suid-Afrikaanse modeontwerper, lê leweloos in ’n luukse hotel op Hermanus. Hande om Storm te help met die ondersoek ná Beebee se dood is min, want protesaksie lê die dorp lam. Boonop sweep ’n charismatiese profeet die skare op tot ’n histerie. Storm besef gou nie net haar ma se lewe is in gevaar nie. Sy is ook ’n teiken. Intussen probeer haar ekskollega, Andreas Moerdyk, nou ’n privaat speurder, om ’n skaars rooi diamant van onskatbare waarde op te spoor. Van Londen se donker strate tot Antwerpen se diamantebeurs, van Port Nolloth se verlate kuslyn tot Storm se geliefde Hermanus, ontvou die storie in Irna van Zyl se derde misdaadroman teen die pas van ’n sneltrein.
When an emaciated little girl is found on an icy Cape mountainside,
investigative journalist and criminal profiler Dr Clare Hart is baffled
that no one has reported her missing. Where does she come from, who
does she belong to? In another troubling turn of events, a distraught
man approaches Clare to help him locate his granddaughter, a gifted
cellist who has abandoned her music scholarship and been seduced by a
cultish religious community and its charismatic leader. In a race
against time, Clare battles to unravel the two cases which she
discovers are connected in ways too horrifying to fathom.
Dalk is hy hier. Besig om jou dop te hou.
In the last decade over 6,000 rhinos have been killed in South Africa. Relentless poaching for their horns has led to a catastrophic fall in black rhino numbers. Meanwhile, a corrupt South African government turns a blind eye to the international trade in rhino horn. This is the background to Peter Hain's brilliantly pacey and timely thriller. Battling to defend the dwindling rhino population, a veteran freedom fighter is forced to break his lifetime loyalty to the ANC as he confronts corruption at the very highest level. Hell-bent on catching the poachers and exposing their trade, the veteran and his young 'born free' colleague hatch a plan to install a GPS tracking device inside a replica horn in an attempt to locate its destination. The stakes are high. Can the country's ancient rhino herd be saved from extinction by state-sponsored poaching? Has Mandela's 'rainbow nation' been irretrievably betrayed by political corruption and cronyism?
Klippe, messe en pyle uit ’n kruisboog: Die vreemste – en wreedste –misdaadtoneel in Kaptein Nicci de Wee se loopbaan. Dan moet sy en haar nuwe taakspan boonop bontstaan om saam met die nimlike Blackie Swart ’n internasionale insident te voorkom. Ook op haar lessenaar: die dood van twee jong meisies. En die angswekkende vermoede dat al hierdie sake met mekaar verband hou. Met soveel kinkels in die kabel soos dooies in die staatslykhuis, moet Nicci-hulle alles tot hul beskikking inspan om ’n nuwe hel af te weer: van ’n rekenaarfundi, tot stiletto’s en selfs ’n paar petrolbomme. Gou kom Nicci agter die monsters wat haar lewe en dié van haar kollegas bedreig, is gevaarliker as Ramoth, vlymskerp polisiefotograaf Stella Jansen se mak Komododraak. In Jagter, haar derde Nicci de Wee-riller, draai Bettina Wyngaard al die krane oop.
Slegs die dooies kan swyg soos die graf ...
Hy kan eerlik sê kleintjies hou van hom. Dit laat hom altyd dink dat hy
’n goeie pa sal maak. Die dogtertjie weeg byna niks en hy pluk haar met
gemak tot binne-in sy voertuig. Hy trek dadelik weg, die spartelende
kind oor sy skoot. Sy probeer onder sy greep uit kom, maar hy druk haar
half onder die stuurwiel in.
Die hulp van die forensiese profileerder, doktor Olaf Demeyer, word ingeroep toe voetslaners aan die voet van Bosberg op die naakte lyk van 'n vrou afkom. Sy is vasgemaak teen 'n jong bloekom. Verskeie meswonde ontsier haar liggaam. Maar Olaf sien nie kans nie. Hy het sy praktyk gesluit, want “Ek is oor die muur. Ek het vir te lank te veel oor hierdie soort afgronde van mense gehang, om te probeer help. Toe my eie dogter deur 'n reeksmoordenaar ontvoer word, het ek oor my eie afgrond gedonder. Tot onder in die hel. Nooit weer nie. Ek kan nie meer nie. Ek het genoeg gehad.” Maar so maklik is dit nie om sy rug op hierdie trauma te draai nie. Die slagoffer teen die bloekom is kaptein Jasmyn Oktober, die vrou vir wie hy lief geword het. Sy het uit sy lewe gestap toe sy agterkom sy verwag sy kind. Cor is nou twee maande oud en hy ly aan 'n ernstige hartdefek. Hy moet dringend in die Kaap kom vir 'n operasie, maar hy het verdwyn. Hy word vermoedelik deur sy ma se moordenaar aangehou. Sy uurglas is besig om leeg te loop. “Jy het jou dogter se lewe gered,” soebat adjudant Jordaan van Somerset-Oos vir Olaf. “Kom help ons nou om jou babaseun ook te red.” Kwessies soos geestesversteuring, seksverslawing en kannibalisme word aangespreek teen die agtergrond van 'n reeks bisarre misdade waarin jong vroue grusaam vermink word voordat hulle sterf en hulle babas verdwyn. Ondier is die skrywer se tweede volwasse roman en volg op Die Vyfde Aspoester.
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