The Unlikely Secret Agent

The Unlikely Secret Agent
Author :
Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 197
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781583672792
ISBN-13 : 1583672796
Rating : 4/5 (796 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Unlikely Secret Agent by : Ronnie Kasrils

Download or read book The Unlikely Secret Agent written by Ronnie Kasrils and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 élan by Eleanor’s husband, Ronnie Kasrils, who eventually became South Africa’s Minister of Intelligence Services in 2004.


The Unlikely Secret Agent Related Books

The Unlikely Secret Agent
Language: en
Pages: 197
Authors: Ronnie Kasrils
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-01 - Publisher: NYU Press

GET EBOOK

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 Unlikely Secret Agent
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: Ronnie Kasrils
Categories: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: NYU Press

GET EBOOK

Originally published: Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana Media, 2010.
A Most Ungentlemanly Way of War
Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: Bernd Horn
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-30 - Publisher: Dundurn

GET EBOOK

An examination of the SOE, its accomplishments, and the Canadian connection to the organization. During the Second World War, British Prime Minister Winston Chu
The Spymasters
Language: en
Pages: 464
Authors: W.E.B. Griffin
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-25 - Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons

GET EBOOK

Tapped by FDR to assist the Allies' efforts to secure France and build an atomic bomb, OSS spy chief Wild Bill Donovan and top agent Dick Canidy coordinate a sa
The Secret Agent's Bedside Reader
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: Michael Smith
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-16 - Publisher: Biteback Publishing

GET EBOOK

Espionage fact and fiction collide in this thrilling compendium of spy writing, where some of the greatest spy stories ever told meet the genuine agent records