A convoluted storyline.

There are three storylines that eventually come together.

Lemmer who must guard a truck transporting black Rhino from Zimbabwe to a farm near Loxton.

A housewife escapes an abusive marriage. She finds work as a journalist within the Secret Services directly under the President of South Africa. They need to find out what is happening in the world of Islamic terrorism that is threatening South Africa.

Mat Joubert has retired from the police force after years of service and is now working as a private detective. His first client is a woman desperately trying to find her husband who disappeared without trace.

How can these three stories have anything to do with each other? Thanks to Deon Meyer's exceptional writing you will discover that they are linked through some strange coincidences.

A brilliant storyline. Unfortunately, my gripe is with the narrators Rupert Degas and Sandra Duncan. It never ceases to amaze me when books with South African characters are narrated by non-South African speakers. They can try as hard as they like to get their voices to sound like a true South African accent, but all fail miserably. Saul Reichlin on the other hand, is the perfect narrator as he can copy allSouth African accents.

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Enjoyed listening to this Audio book but it was frustrating when the pronunciation of some of the Afrikaans words were incorrect. Can this please be reviewed.

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Enjoyable

I liked this book, I liked the readers, and maybe the accents were not 100%, but I really liked it.

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A bit of a mess

If this book wasn’t for you, who do you think might enjoy it more?

I suppose if you are heavily into South African politics society it might have more meaning for you.

What could Deon Meyer have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

The threads needed to interconnect more and have some sort of resolution rather that just hanging.

Which character – as performed by the narrators – was your favourite?

I had no favourite, I could not get attached to them before the narrative moved on. I particularly disliked the multi-voice sections which were jarring. This should have been a plain reading rather than a cross between dramatisation and audiobook.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Trackers?

Everything that did not have any bearing on anything else, i.e. most of the book.

Any additional comments?

I kept listening, expecting all the threads to be drawn together in some clever way but they were just left dangling which was most upsetting.

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A beginning, middle and no end

This was my first Deon Meyer book. I liked the use of three narrators, the accents were not a problem for me. I thought the characters were were developed in each story line and I was trying to second guess how they would all be woven together at the end. At this point I was thinking this was a 4 or 5 star read.
Unfortunately, the end was a damp squib with only a very marginal effort to inter-twine the individual stories and hence my overall rating. I am currently reading another of his books but this one was just under-cooked.

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if disappointment had a face it would be mine.

For years my husband eagerly awaits anything from Deon Meyer's pen and he loves them, but, he reads them in Afrikaans. When I saw a Deon Meyer in the Audible Library I was overjoyed and even kept it a secret from him and couldn't wait to switch on my "surprise" find when we did our road trip! What a disappointment this experience has been, the South African accents are atrocious, not even in South Africa would you hear one, and I assume the readers are locals, I know Sandra Duncan is. I dread getting into the car (that's when we do Audible) knowing I have to be subjected to this painful rendition and translation. Sorry Deon you really deserve better. Maricha, Worcester, South Africa

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