Trackers by Deon Meyer *** (of 4)

A straight-up suspense novel spread across the cities and bush of South Africa.  There is a diamond heist, a rhino smuggled from Zimbabwe to a South African ranch, a rogue cargo ship that might be smuggling high-powered explosives to Cape Town's Muslim terrorists, murderous street gangs, and self-employed crooks.  Tracking all the bad guys are South Africa's Presidential Intelligence Unit, the CIA, the South African Police Service, and a couple of private investigators.  Trackers is divided into three rather distinct books which make the characters and plots easy enough to keep abreast of and Meyer's strength is in making each book gripping and just related enough to the others to make pages fly by, even if nearly all of the women characters in the book appear to have only one character trait: buxomness.

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