SECRETS AND LIES **Dr Death** SCARCE

Wouter Basson and South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme. This is a tale of military machination and scientific subterfuge, of combatants who disappeared without trace, and bizarre experiments carried out behind locked doors.
Basson joined the army after completing a doctorate in chemistry, and was rapidly promoted through the ranks. He travelled around the world as a spy, on both sides of the Iron Curtain, using fake identities - and often fake marriages - as a front. Back in South Africa, Basson headed Project Coast, the state's CBW programme, during which time he was allegedly involved in poisoning people, developing drugs to placate the state's opponents, and simple, brutal murder.
Basson was arrested for possessing Ecstasy tablets, and was investigated by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and then in a criminal trial. This book, written by a chief TRC investigator and a journalist who has followed every day of his case, unpacks the fascinating and sordid story of the man who became known as Doctor Death.
Set against the backdrop of the international Cold War and South Africa's bloody passage to democracy, the events related in this book were uncovered during ten years of investigation and made public by the trial of Wouter Basson, the first criminal prosecution in the world of the head of an official chemical and biological warfare programme.

First edition softcover written by Marlene Burgers and Chandre Gould, published by Zebra Press, 2002. Long out of print and scarce, as there was a very small print run. Very good condition.