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‘Blood Safari’

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Marco Werman talks with our book critic Christopher Merrill about a new novel called “Blood Safari” from South African writer Deon Meyer (translated from Afrikaans by K. L. Seegers).

Christopher Merrill writes: The new South Africa is the setting for this taut crime novel by Deon Meyer, an Afrikaans writer with an eye for the complications wrought by the end of apartheid, the iniquitous political system instituted by descendants of the Dutch settlers. It turns out that few in this country can escape their history, certainly not Lemmer, a personal security guarrd with a checkered past, including a stint in prison for murder, or his client, Emma le Roux, an expert in branding who believes that she saw her brother on television—twenty years after he vanished without a trace. Determined to find him, Lemmer and Emma set off for the Lowveld, a popular tourist destination, and there they discover some hard truths, experiencing along the way no shortage of close calls—with a black mamba, with men in ski masks, with the past itself. A thoroughly enjoyable read.

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