title: Devil's Peak: A Novel
author:  Deon Meyer 
description: Starred Review. Complex, finely wrought characters, keen psychological insight and a compelling plot lift this crime novel from South African author Meyer (<i>Dead Before Dying</i>). 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. This book is easily Meyer's finest effort to date. <i>(Mar.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  Also by Deon Meyer
  
  Dead Before Dying
  
  Dead at Daybreak
  
  Heart of the Hunter
  
  Devil’s Peak
  
  Blood Safari
  
  Thirteen Hours
  
  Trackers
  
  7 Days
  
  Cobra
  
  Icarus
  
  Fever
  
  The Woman in the Blue Cloak
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Last Hunt
  
  Deon Meyer
  
  Translated from Afrikaans
  
  by K.L. Seegers
  
  [www.hodder.co.uk](http://www.hodder.co.uk)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  First published in Great Britain in 2019 by Hodder & Stoughton An Hachette UK
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  Originally published in Afrikaans in 2019 as Prooi by Human & Rousseau
  
  
  Copyright © Deon Meyer 2019
  
  
  English translation copyright © K. L. Seegers 2019
  
  
  
  
  
  The right of Deon Meyer to be identified as the Author of the Work has been
  asserted by him in accordance with
  
  
  the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in
  a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the
  prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any
  form of binding or 