How South African author Deon Meyer 'predicted' Covid-19

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Breakfast with Martin Bester spoke to South African author Deon Meyer about his new book, ‘Scorpio Rising’, and the story behind one of his earlier novels, ‘Fever’, which featured a devastating pandemic years before Covid-19 emerged.



The conversation explored how real-life events, research and unexpected connections shape Meyer’s crime fiction.



He said the resemblance between the coronavirus in ‘Fever’ and the virus behind Covid-19 was not the result of a prediction.