The Last Hunt

Praise for The Last Hunt

The undisputed champion of South African crime. Meyer grabs you but the throat and never lets you go

From its startling opening to its tense and thrilling conclusion, Deon Meyer’s The Last Hunt takes you on a whirlwind safari across two continents. In the whole of the Benny Griessel series so far, the stakes have never been higher or the odds so much against

Meyer weaves a web of intrigue, deception thrills and violence in as good a murder mystery/police procedural as you’re likely to read. The richly drawn characters are flesh and blood and the plots all too realistic… quite brilliant - Crime Review

The Last Hunt is magnificent! Crime writing at its very best.

Praise for Deon Meyer

Compelling, action-packed and fraught with emotion. At its heart it is a powerful exploration of humanity at its best and worst and bears favourable comparison with landmarks of the genre such as Stephen King’s The Standand Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Simply stunning. - Daily Express

Reminiscent of The Stand and The Passage. Great stuff.

Born in South Africa in 1958, Deon Meyer was a journalist, advertising copywriter, Internet manager and brand strategist before he became a novelist. Meyer has published fifteen novels and two short story collections. His books have been translated into 28 languages in more than 40 countries worldwide.

Meyer has written several series for television, six screenplays for feature films, and produced and directed movies. Dead Before Dying and Trackers have both been made into TV series in South Africa, and in 2023 the Benny Griessel series premiered under the name Devil’s Peak on M-Net. Heart of the Hunter was released worldwide as a Netflix Original in March 2024 and was Netflix’s number one streamed film for two consecutive weeks, with 25 million views globally in the first three weeks.

Meyer was knighted by France in 2021 as Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. He lives with his family in Stellenbosch, South Africa.