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Dead at Daybreak

By: Deon Meyer
Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
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Summary
 A South African antiques dealer is murdered with a single bullet from an M-16 assault rifle. The contents of the safe are missing and the only clues are a scrap of blank paper and the unusual weapon used - a gun that's generally the choice of mercenaries, not burglars. Now ex-cop Zed van Heerden has seven days to fill in the blanks in this dead man's past. A past that appears only to start in 1983...©2003 Deon Meyer (P)2003 W.F. Howes Ltd. Action & Adventure Mystery Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction
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Dark, compelling, brilliantly narrated, a look at the soul and hardship of an excop now a struggling pi . This is another excellent book by Deon Meyer. well recommended. Showing the a view of today's Crime in South Africa, a once shiny BMW now being stripped for parts by its current owner.

Dead at Daybreak

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loved the scene setting and the way it passed from present to past effortlessly

atmospheric

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