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THIS SUMMER’S BEST READS

Page-turning fiction

• Deon Meyer’s latest, The Last Hunt , includes a murder on the Rovos Rail luxury train and scenes in the French city of Bordeaux – plus a hitman stalking a corrupt SA president.

Agent Running in the Field is the new John Le Carré, described as a ‘chilling portrait of our time’ (referencing Brexit, Trump, Russian oligarchs and more).

• Quincy Miller, unjustly sentenced to life without parole, has a shot at freedom thanks to an unusual law firm, in John Grisham’s legal thriller The Guardians .

• A little boy vanishes in the woods and returns six days later, unharmed but not unchanged… Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky is by turns chilling, thrilling and moving.

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