A movie version of an author's book always seems to cement their reputation. Look no further than South African author Deon Meyer's Barry award-winning adaptation of 13 Hours, starring Sean Bean, the guy who lost his head in Game Of Thrones.
Bean will play detective Captain Bennie Griessel of the South African Police Squad (SAPS), first featured in Devil's Peak. Meyer's latest Griessel thriller, Seven Days, is Bennie's third crime outing, so you don't have far to read. The guy is so good, though, you'll probably want to collect all eight of his novels.
At the opening of Seven Days, Bennie's about to make one of the biggest accomplishments of his life. Not the fact that he's gone 227 days without a drink. Bennie's escorting his girlfriend, acclaimed singer and recovering alcoholic Alexa Bernard, to a glittering night at the music hall where she'll be making her comeback. That is, if Bennie can keep Alexa sober.
An inopportune phone call takes Bennie away from his lovely sidetrack. He's been assigned to the SAPS elite homicide force, the Hawks, for a very strange case. Two policemen have been shot by an unknown sniper. His email demands are simple: arrest the murderer of high-powered female lawyer Hanneke Sloet or another officer gets shot.
Sloet was stabbed in her luxury apartment 40 days earlier. The case has gone cold. Not anymore. Griessel puts everything on hold, including his love life, his daughter and her hulking new boyfriend, and his son's proposed tattoo, to fly with the Hawks on an impossible case.
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