{"product_id":"the-unlikely-secret-agent-9781583672778","title":"The Unlikely Secret Agent","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of South Africa’s top literary prize, the Alan Paton Award, The Unlikely\u003cbr\u003eSecret Agent tells the thrilling true story of one woman’s struggle against the\u003cbr\u003eapartheid system. It is 1963. South Africa is in crisis and the white state is\u003cbr\u003eunder siege. One August 19th, the dreaded Security Police descended\u003cbr\u003eon Griggs bookstore in downtown Durban and arrest Eleanor, the white daughter\u003cbr\u003eof the manager. They threaten to “break her or hang her” if she does not lead\u003cbr\u003ethem to her lover, “Red” Ronnie Kasrils, who is wanted on suspicion of\u003cbr\u003einvolvement in recent acts of sabotage, including the toppling of electricity\u003cbr\u003epylons and explosions at a Security Police office in Durban.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Eleanor has her own secret to conceal: she is, like Ronnie, a\u003cbr\u003eclandestine agent for the underground ANC and must protect her handlers and\u003cbr\u003eRonnie at all costs. Astutely, she convinces the police that she is on the\u003cbr\u003everge of a nervous breakdown and, still a prisoner, is relocated to a mental\u003cbr\u003ehospital in Pietermaritzburg for assessment. It is here that she plots her\u003cbr\u003eescape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis remarkable story of a young woman’s courage and daring at a time\u003cbr\u003eof increasing repression in apartheid South Africa is told here for the first\u003cbr\u003etime with great verve and élan by Eleanor’s husband, Ronnie Kasrils, who\u003cbr\u003eeventually became South Africa’s Minister of Intelligence Services in 2004.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ronnie Kasrils","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48274153079035,"sku":"9781583672778","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_1781d3ed-b8e2-4849-bfc3-6f137f9cd511.jpg?v=1771072306","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-unlikely-secret-agent-9781583672778","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}