A Just Defiance: The Bombmakers, the Insurgents and a Legendary Treason Trial - Softcover

Harris, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846272874 ISBN 13: 9781846272875

Publisher: Granta Books, 2012

Synopsis

1987, Pretoria. Four young black men have just been arrested for a horrific string of political murders. There's no doubt that they're guilty of everything they're accused of - and more. But in a society riven by brutal repression and racial tensions, are they assassins or freedom fighters? Peter Harris is the lawyer called upon to defend them and, as he constructs his case to save them from the death penalty, he comes to understand the violence they encountered growing up in the townships and the chain of events that led them to join the ANC, undergo training at Zuma's camps in Angola, and return to their homeland to execute some of the apartheid regime's most notorious figures. Harris intercuts the story of their trial with flashbacks to the squad's operations and a deadly counterplot to reveal a campaign carried out with ruthless efficiency.

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Review:

'A very important book ... I have found it virtually impossible to put down' --Justin Cartwright, Spectator

`A stunning book ... Harris set out to write a historical thriller and succeeds with aplomb' --Observer

`Brilliant ... deserves recognition as a significant record of the human drama that accompanied South Africa's cacophonous transfer of power' --Daily Telegraph

`A riveting account of an extraordinary chapter in the murky history of apartheid' --Metro

`A triumph ... Harris brings to life some of the most unlikely heroes of the last years of apartheid'
--Sunday Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Granta Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1846272874
• ISBN 13: 9781846272875
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320