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Heart of the Hunter
  
Heart of the Hunter (Hardcover)
by Deon Meyer (Author)
4.0 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)

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Product details
  • Hardcover: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd (10 Nov 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340821973
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340821978
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 922,118 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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  • Other Editions: Hardcover  |  Paperback (New Ed) |  Mass Market Paperback (Reprint) |  All Editions


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'A brand-new talent and a welcome change of locale for thriller fans ... Meyer weaves an impressively tangled web and taut narrative keeps the reader guessing until the last couple of pages' HEAT***

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Tiny thought he'd left his past behind. He was wrong. When Johnny K is kidnapped and held to ransom, his daughter turns to the only man she knows can help her -- his old friend - Tiny. The kidnappers want a disk from her safe that contains extremely sensitive data, and she has seventy-two hours in which to deliver, or her father will die. But there are those watching Tiny's every move, monitoring, waiting for him to trip up and lead them to what they want. Two warring factions with innocents caught in the middle It is only a matter of time...

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars "Once the cycle began it couldn't be stopped...", 29 Dec 2004
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This review is from: Heart of the Hunter (Paperback)
Thobela Mpayipheli is an African giant, ex-spy, who is now living with his fiancé and her son in a small town in South Africa, called Guguletu. He has vowed never to go back to his old life, but his peaceful existence is broken when Monica Kleintjes, the daughter of one of his dear friends from the past, asks for his help. Johnny Kleintjes has been kidnapped and will only be released upon the delivery of a disk containing information that is crucial to national security. Kleintjes gathered this information when working in an integration project in an effort to document the real history relating to the events that took place in the dark era of the Apartheid.

Thobela, or Tiny as his friends call him, is a mysterious man that shows great kindness at moments, and cold-blooded violence at others. In a world when everyone wants to see things white or black, he presents a solid gray. This can be clearly appreciated by the reaction of the people as he goes on his quest, mounted on a powerful motorbike. Some see him as a hero, while others regard him as a dangerous man who cannot be good because he used to work as a "collector" for a drug baron. There is one reporter for the Cape Times, Allison Healy, who tries to answer the question: Is Tiny good or bad? This will provide us with valuable insight regarding the main character, but: can the question be answered with certainty?

One would thing that helping a friend that has been kidnapped would be hard enough, but Thobela has other problems too. Janina Metz, a high ranked officer in one of the intelligence agencies, had a wire that allowed her to listen