A Just Defiance

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.

ISBN 1846272874   DEWEY edition DC23 ISBN13 9781846272875 (What's this?)   Pages 336 Publisher Granta Books   Published in London Imprint Portobello Books Ltd   Height (mm) 198 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 129 Publication date 05 Apr 2012   Academic level General DEWEY 968.063

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