An Act of Terror - Hardcover

Brink, Andre Philippus

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671748580 ISBN 13: 9780671748586

Publisher: Summit Books, 1992

Synopsis

Plans for an assassination attempt on the president of South Africa go astray, and Thomas finds himself alone in a struggle to escape from the country's brutal chief of security

About this title

Review:

"A political thriller, set in South Africa, laced with all the angst and pain and lacerating emotion that comes from attempting to intellectualise, and hence come to terms with, living in that volatile, unnerving, but ultimately fascinating land" (Peter Brown Time Out)

"An Act of Terror is the work of a sane, civilised, intelligent man- a story about events that are in the process of becoming news stories. Brink... is a writer of inspired violence, and his shifts of viewpoint are thrilling and significant, and deepy honouring the profession of literature" (Hugh Barnes The Times)

"This is clearly André Brink's tour de force" (Time Out)

Book Description:

'An Act of Terror belongs to that small group of novels embracing a country's ethos and history in one panoptic vision... Peter Carey... García Márquez... Alexander Solzhenitsyn, André Brink must be considered with that class of writer' - Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: Summit Books
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0671748580
• ISBN 13: 9780671748586
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1