She looks at the world and she makes it more beautiful on canvas. That's her work.' He pointed to the wall. In a dialogue with Hope (Beneke), a sentence summarizes how between Zet (van Heerden), the main character, oscillates between positive and negative feelings. In parallel, the reader discovers the life of Thobela Mpayipheli, a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe - the armed wing of African National Congress - sent to the former Soviet Union and East Germany to be trained as an assassin. This character is like a vindicator showing us that no one holds a single truth, and that coexistence with former enemies is difficult. The plot alternates between the chapters written in the third person and describing the step-by-step investigations, and those written in the first person and detailing the history of the personal life of Zet van Heerden. Smit' was not the person whose papers he carried, and that someone wants to hide his true identity. This rich antiquarian was tortured at their home and murdered after the opening of his safe-deposit box and the stealing of its content.

He is appointed by the lawyer Hope Beneke to find in less than 7 days a testament bequeathing to the widow Wilna van As the fortune of her husband, Johannes Jacobus Smit. Zatopek 'Zet' van Heerden, an Afrikaner former cop, is private detective. It has also been the basis of Orion, a series for television. This book won a coveted international prize, the France’s Prix Mystère de la critique. In this bestselling thriller, the author brings together history, that of the apartheid system, and politics, that of South Africa in Angola. Its Afrikaans title is Orion, and it has been translated into English by Madeleine van Biljon. Dead at Daybreak is the second crime novel written by South African thriller novelist, Deon Meyer.

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