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Cobra Hardcover – October 7, 2014

by Deon Meyer (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars 202 customer reviews
Book 4 of 5 in the Benny Griessel Series
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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press (October 7, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0802123244
  • ISBN-13: 978-0802123244
  • Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 6.5 x 9.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (202 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #432,624 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsAnother gripping, pulse-pounding winner from Meyer
By "switterbug" Betsey Van Horn TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on September 16, 2014
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South African Deon Meyer is the putative giant of second-tier thrillers (but he should be first-tier!). He stays consistently at the top of my pile of crime fiction literature, and never fails to pull me in with his muscular prose and taut, thrilling plot lines, the kind of narrative that usually takes place in a narrow period of time and with a lot at stake. In COBRA (and I won't reveal *why* the title, since it is fun just getting to it!), Benny Griessel is back again, fighting his personal demons as well as the external ones.

Meyer has hit on the global zeitgeist of crime in his latest book, placing technology at the center of the plot. It is also fun watching Luddite Benny Griessel struggling to get a handle on 21st century telecommunications. Meyer, while keeping pace with progress, nails down the importance of creating rich characters to engage readers. He doesn't rely on technology alone to fasten us to the story.

The first pages open with murder and abduction, with the Hawks (South Africa's top police) investigating the bloody mess at a remote guesthouse. Captain Griessel lines up a team to chase down the killer and the kidnapped. The next chapter introduces us to a petty pickpocket named Tyrone, who is trying to help his sister, Nadia, pay for university. We don't know how Tyrone figures into the multiple-homicide case, but Meyer seamlessly provides a juncture for the disparate threads to connect and catapult the story into thicker and more dangerous territory.

Meyer is expert at enriching the story while moving forward vertically. For new readers, the author blends in enough for you to know that Griessel is a recovering alcoholic, and providing some backstory for his current circumstances.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsPoor ebook production quality but a good story
By Kenneth C. Mahieu on September 7, 2015
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Before commenting on the plot and writing I wish to offer some comments germane to the ebook version of COBRA. I found the e-book production quality of COBRA unacceptable. After so many years of ebook availability, I feel it is about time for publishers to overcome these seemingly trivial challenge First, the pages of COBRA are not numbered, so the reader is once again stuck with location numbers. . Secondly, there were a number of typos. One example - for some strange reason, any word beginning with "fl" seemed to be followed by a number of spaces and then the rest of the characters. So, "flat" becomes "fl at"; ditto for "fl ower" etc etc. In addition, there were other typos including missing spaces between words. Finally, and worst of all, the ebook version did not have line spacing between paragraphs when a setting changed within a chapter. On a number of occasions, I would be two or three paragraphs into a different scene before realizing it. Very distracting, causing me to backup and re-read every so often, and unfortunately losing the thread of the story on occasion. I am not a publishing expert but it seems to me that given the price of ebooks and the reduced costs of production since printing, binding and shipping charges are non-existent suggest to me that it is not unreasonable to expect better quality.

I have been a fan of Deon Meyer for several years now and I have read most of his books. COBRA is good and once again the protagonist is Benny Griessel, a Cape Town police detective, supported by the usual crew. The plot concerns the kidnapping of a visiting UK VIP, during which two members of his security team are assassinated. The killer has left casings behind with the figure of a particularly deadly cobra etched on them.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsI like Deon Meyer's books
By Joan Barnes on October 26, 2014
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I like Deon Meyer's books. He writes a good thriller. Sometimes I would have to put the book down and take a breath. I like reading about Cape Town and South Africa. He puts in lots of little Afrikaans words and phrases which I find interesting. The flavpr of the country comes out.
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5.0 out of 5 starsSouth African Detective Tracks Down Cold-Blooded Killer Who Leaves Behind Bullet Casings Marked With Engraved Cobra
By Lynne E. TOP 100 REVIEWER on September 7, 2014
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One of the best things about COBRA--which is a very good spy thriller--is the South African setting. I like police procedurals, and was particularly interested in the descriptions of the South African Police Service (SAPS) and its Directorate of Priority Crime Investigations (the "Hawks"), as well as the interactions between SAPS and other South African law enforcement bodies (the State Security Agency (SA), and the Crime Intelligence Unit (CI)).

The plot is complicated: Captain Benny Griessel (a SAPS captain, a Hawk, and a recovering alcoholic) is lead detective in the investigation of a triple homicide and apparent kidnapping. Two of the victims are highly trained bodyguards, who were hired to protect a mysterious, now-missing person (a man with a British accent who was traveling on a forged French passport under an assumed name). Bullet casings at the scene are engraved with a cobra and the letters NM--strongly suggesting that the kidnapping/homicides are the work of a hit man.

When Benny and his Hawks team query Interpol about the "cobra" bullets, they learn that similar bullets are connected with a series of probable murders-for-hire committed by a known, cold-blooded individual. But when the British Consulate reluctantly provides a possible identification for the kidnapped man, everything goes south. Benny learns that the Hawks' offices and cellphones are being bugged by their own government security forces; and SAP is ordered to turn the case over to SA and CI. If it continues, Benny's investigation must go underground, and every participant's career will be in jeopardy. But continue it must, because the kidnapped man is the key to an international secret that threatens the entire world's banking system.Read more ›
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Realistic writing. Suspence is maintained to the very end.

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5.0 out of 5 starsA Fast-Paced Thriller

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Convoluted plot but action animated by memorable characters and creatively situated in different Cape Province locations.

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