Icarus

Selected by Marcel Berlins in The Times as one of the 50 best crime novels of the last 50 years: ''Deon Meyer is acclaimed for his portrayals of crime and the police after the end of apartheid. Non-white detectives hold positions once monopolised by their white bosses, and the tensions are high''

After 602 days dry, Captain Benny Griessel of the South African police services can''t take any more t...