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Deon Meyer is a South African crime fiction author and screenwriter. A former journalist, advertising copywriter, internet manager and brand strategist, Deon has published seventeen novels and two short story collections. His books have been published in 28 languages in more than 40 countries world-wide. He has also written several series for television, and four screenplays for feature films, as well as producing and directing movies in his native Afrikaans.
Accolades for Deon's books include Le Grand Prix de Littérature Policière (2003) and Le prix Mystère de la critique (2004) from France, the Deutsche Krimi Preis (2006, 2009), the Swedish Martin Beck Award (2010, 2021), the ATKV Prose Prize (2000, 2003, and 2004), the ATKV Suspense Fiction Prize (2008, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2019, 2021), the M-Net Award for Most Filmic Novel (2009, 2012), and the Barry Award for Best Thriller in the USA (2010)

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'I love Deon Meyer novels' Michael Connelly

No. 1 internationally bestselling author Deon Meyer's most thrilling novel to date, Scorpio Rising features Detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido scrambling to solve seemingly unrelated cases in a race against time to avoid catastrophe...

Two impossible cases. One unstoppable team.

When Detective Benny Griessel is assigned the case of a private eye crushed under a BMW in his garage, it looks like a tragic accident. But Benny's partner, Vaughn Cupido, knew the deceased, and he says it's murder.

Benny would love to have Vaughn's help on the case, because so far it's going nowhere. But his partner is stuck wasting his considerable talents investigating the arson of a remote shepherd's hut.

Then a caravan explodes on a nearby farm, and the identity of the body inside drives the media into a feeding frenzy just a week before an international security forum comes to town.

Suddenly, Griessel and Cupido's dead-end cases are burning red-hot, and the flames threaten not just their careers, but those dearest to them.

Local and international threats become perilously entwined in this tautly constructed thriller from a master of the form, as Griessel and Cupido race against time to uncover a plot that could challenge global politics at the highest level . . .

**'One of the best crime writers on the planet' Mail on Sunday
'Deon Meyer's name on the cover is a guarantee of crime writing at its best' Tess Gerritsen