What's new?
'Thirteen Hours' coming to the UK and USA in 2010
Deon's brand new novel - a number one bestseller in South Africa - has just won the ATKV prize for Suspense Fiction, after claiming the the M-Net Prize for most filmic novel earlier this year. Film rights in '13 Hours' have also been optioned to London-based South African film-making team Malcolm Kohll and Robert Fig. Legendary director Roger Spottiswoode (Under Fire, Tomorrow Never Dies, Shake Hands with the Devil) is attached as director and script consultant.
The novel will be published in 2010 by Hodder in the UK, Grove Atlantic in the US, Random in Canada, Le Seuil in France, Aufbau in Germany and Centerpolygraph in Russia.
(The cover on the right is the UK hardcover edition.)
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"Blood Safari manages to be both an exciting read and an eye-opening portrait ..."" writes Patrick Anderson in the Washington Post.
JC Patterson, in the Madison County Herald: "For exotic locales, searing prose, and a protagonist who flies off the pages, book a Blood Safari with Deon Meyer. You'll need a big gun."
And on American National Public Radio, it is described as a "... big, sexy novel'. For the full audio review, please visit TheWorld.Org.
Amber in Poland has just published Deon's first translated novel in that country, under the titel of Martwi za Życia.
Heart of the Hunter has recently enjoyed Swedish("Jägarens hjärta"), and Spanish ("El Corazon del Cazador") editions. Both books have just been published in Europe, and the Spanish edition will be reaching South America soon.