The Infiltrators - David Chapman ( Fiction based in Rhodesia )

Published by Macmillan Johannesburg London 1968. Hardback with Dj that has some wear and tear but still shows the oroginal price of R2.50 !!! Apart from the normal age browning and dust marks the book itself is intact.

" The Infiltrators is the story of a group of African terrorists who cross the wild Chobe district of Northern Botswana in an effort to make their way into Rhodesia. They are armed with automatic weapons. Their purpose is guerilla warfare.

Nhlabano, their enlightened leader, has been trained in Red China. While continuing to believe in the justice of their cause, each successive event deepens his didillusionment till he comes to feel that he is leading his group on a suicidal mission, and even allows his leadership to be challenged by the bloodthirsty Nkosi.

Equaly convinced of the justness of ther actions are the white men of the story, Bas Sinclair, ex-Special Air Service officer in Malaya, and Neville Sands, his ex-commanding officer and now his business partner. Sinclairs sympathy with post-UDI Rhodesia and his employment with the Rhodesian Police are somewhat distasteful to his friend, yet their relationship is a close one, on occasions strained by the difference in their political creeds.....

Set against a background of political upheaval where the Zamesi and Chobe rivers mark the front line, this first novel by David Chapman is vivid, compelling reading full of excitement and subtle touches of pathos. It announces the arrival of a new talent amongst contemporary writers"

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