This is a remarkable achievement from a singular new talent. Meyer keeps the suspense moving throughout the third-person narrative, alternating back and forth with van Heerden's own first-person account of his past. It doesn't take long for van Heerden to discover that 'Smit' wasn't the person whose papers he carried, and that someone very important, quite possibly the state itself, wants to hide his true identity. Beneke and van Heerden have only seven days to find the document before Smit's considerable assets revert to the state, leaving his common-law wife destitute. When Johannes Jacobus Smit, an antiques dealer, is found burned with a blowtorch and killed execution-style with a single shot to the back of the head.

Little, Brown, 23.95 (384pp) ISBN 978-2-3 South African crime writer Meyers expertly crafted second.

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