Böcker av Barry Gilder

At Fire Hour is a sweeping, soulful novel that tells the story of Bhekisizwe Makhatini, a young black South Africa writer, detained and forced into exile, who undergoes a creative writing masters in the UK and military training with the ANC in Angola and in the Soviet Union, and faces the angst of choosing between his writing and his passionate desire to pit his new military skills against the apartheid regime. But Makhatini faces another challenge - suspicion by his ANC comrades that he was released from detention in return for spying on the ANC, that lingers throughout his exile life and beyond. But, is he a sellout?

Rumors have abounded since the early days of South African democracy of a list given to Nelson Mandela of security agents infiltrated into the ANC. The List tells the story of a group of veterans of the intelligence services who are formed into a secret task team by the newly elected president to investigate the possibility.