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At the Complete Review M. A. Orthofer critiques Trackers by Deon Meyer.

So Trackers is three novels in one — and three different kinds of thriller in one, too. Surprisingly, this works: Meyer tells three good separate stories here, and one good larger one. The tension mounts in each — and, of course, there’s the suspense of what fits together, and how. While in previous novels Meyer has relied too much on the over-the-top action-ending, he shows much more confidence in his own abilities here, realizing he doesn’t have to bring things to these sorts of explosive conclusions (and a short, subdued Postscript nicely finishes things off here).