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The Unlikely Secret Agent
Ronnie KasrilsRonald Kasrils
出版NYU Press, 2012
主題BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / HistoricalHISTORY / Africa / South / GeneralHISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa
ISBN15836727889781583672785
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=KesSUgu3TWwC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Winner of South AfricaOCOs top literary prize, the Alan Paton Award, The Unlikely Secret Agent tells the thrilling true story of one womanOCOs 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 OC break her or hang herOCO if she does not lead them to her lover, OC RedOCO 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. a 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. a This remarkable story of a young womanOCOs courage and daring at a time of increasing repression in apartheid South Africa is told here for the first time with great verve and (r)lan by EleanorOCOs husband, Ronnie Kasrils, who eventually became South AfricaOCOs Minister of Intelligence Services in 2004."