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Deon Meyer

In his latest Benny Griessel novel, The Last Hunt, Deon Meyer weaves state capture and the potential assassination of a corrupt president into a thriller that also manages to encompass one of his great loves: food.

A large part of the story plays out in Bordeaux, a city that Deon and his wife, Marianne, visit often, always returning to their favourite restaurants in the Marché des Capucins, a.k.a. “the belly of Bordeaux”. But when in his home town of Stellenbosch, you can usually

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