A review by pannapark
Cobra by Deon Meyer

4.0

I’ve become a big fan of Deon Meyer’s writing! Meyer sets scenes and gives life to characters with a winning combination of dialogue (using wide variations of Cape Town/Afrikaans dialects) and apt descriptions. Each character becomes cemented in my mind soon after the book begins and it’s a delight to watch them interact with each other as the plot unfolds. Captain Benny Griessel, is the main protagonist in Cobra. He is brilliant, troubled and battling alcoholism. Griessel works alongside two other ‘Hawk team’ inspectors, Vaughn Cupido, a Cape coloured and the handbag wielding Zulu Mbali to make sense of the death of a heavily body-guarded English mathematician, a mass shooting at a mall and the kidnapping of a young female medical student.