394pp., paperback, Reprint, Hodder & Stoughton, London, (2000) 2012
ISBN: 9781444730722
First published in Afrikaans in 2000 as Orion. First English Language Edition published in the UK in 2000.
When antiques dealer Johannes Jacobus Smit is found burned with a blowtorch and killed with a single shot to the back of the head, former cop Zatopek "Zed" van Heerden is called in to investigate the unusual circumstances of the murder.
Deon Meyer's thrillers in English include Leo, The Dark Flood, The Last Hunt, Fever, Icarus and The Woman in the Blue Cloak. He lives in Stellenbosch.