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"Utterly gripping, timely and shocking" PHILIPPE SANDS "Compelling
and disturbing . . . quietly devastating" DAMON GALGUT "This is a
book of profound importance . . . A masterpiece" ALEXANDER McCALL
SMITH "A vintage crime story . . . an extraordinary tale . . . It
is written as a drama, part thriller, part tragedy" ALEC RUSSELL,
Financial Times "A smartly paced true-crime thriller with a vivid
cast of characters . . . as tense as it is disturbing" JOHN CARLIN,
author of Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made
a Nation Two dead men. Forty suspects. The trial that broke a small
South African town "Look what the fucking dogs did to them, someone
muttered. No-one mentioned the rope, or the monkey-wrench, or the
gun, or the knife, or the stick, or the whip, or the blood-stained
boots. In fact, no-one said much at all. It seemed simpler that
way. There was no sense in pointing fingers.'" At dusk, on a warm
evening in 2016, a group of forty men gathered in the corner of a
dusty field on a farm outside Parys in the Free State. Some were in
fury. Others treated the whole thing as a joke - a game. The events
of the next two hours would come to haunt them all. They would rip
families apart, prompt suicide attempts, breakdowns, divorce,
bankruptcy, threats of violent revenge and acts of unforgivable
treachery. These Are Not Gentle People is the story of that night,
and of what happened next. It's a courtroom drama, a profound
exploration of collective guilt and individual justice, and a
fast-paced literary thriller. Award-winning foreign correspondent
and author Andrew Harding traces the impact of one moment of
collective barbarism on a fragile community - exploding lies,
cover-ups, political meddling and betrayals, and revealing the
inner lives of those involved with extraordinary clarity. The book
is also a mesmerising examination of a small town trying to cope
with a trauma that threatens to tear it in two - as such, it is as
much a journey into the heart of modern South Africa as it is a
gripping tale of crime, punishment and redemption. When a whole
community is on trial, who pays the price?
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