The Book 

This year we are reading the same book at the same time in three languages! The selected title is Devil’s Peak by Deon Meyer.  The book was originally written in Afrikaans as Infanta and translated into English and French.  The title in French is Le pic du diable. Copies are available in all three languages in the campus libraries. Look out for these covers at the One Book One Library display in your campus library: 

The book interweaves the story lines of three characters: Thobela Mpayipheli, an assegai-wielding avenger who kills anyone guilty of harming children; Benny Griessel, an alcoholic cop heading the team hunting for him; and Christine van Rooyen, a call girl Benny uses to set a trap for the vigilante killer and the Sangrenegra drug cartel. With the media screaming, politicians turning up the heat, his young, inexperienced colleagues bumbling, and the body count rising, Griessel has to resort to the desperate measure of setting a trap. But his brilliant plan does not quite take into account the love of a sex worker for her child, the ruthlessness of the deadly Sangrenegra drug cartel or his own battle with alcoholism.

 Deon Meyer will visit UJ on 17 and 18 October