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The Unlikely Secret Agent (Hardcover)
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The Unlikely Secret Agent (Hardcover)
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Winner of South Africa's top literary prize, the Alan Paton Award,
The Unlikely Secret Agent tells the thrilling true story of one
woman's struggle against the apartheid system. It is 1963. South
Africa is in crisis and the white state is under siege. One August
19th, the dreaded Security Police descended on Griggs bookstore in
downtown Durban and arrest Eleanor, the white daughter of the
manager. They threaten to "break her or hang her" if she does not
lead them to her lover, "Red" Ronnie Kasrils, who is wanted on
suspicion of involvement in recent acts of sabotage, including the
toppling of electricity pylons and explosions at a Security Police
office in Durban. But Eleanor has her own secret to conceal: she
is, like Ronnie, a clandestine agent for the underground ANC and
must protect her handlers and Ronnie at all costs. Astutely, she
convinces the police that she is on the verge of a nervous
breakdown and, still a prisoner, is relocated to a mental hospital
in Pietermaritzburg for assessment. It is here that she plots her
escape. This remarkable story of a young woman's courage and daring
at a time of increasing repression in apartheid South Africa is
told here for the first time with great verve and elan by Eleanor's
husband, Ronnie Kasrils, who eventually became South Africa's
Minister of Intelligence Services in 2004.
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