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Just Defiance
Peter Harris
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Description for Just Defiance
Paperback. A riveting courtroom drama worthy of Grisham or Turow that is also a real-life political thriller that captures the moral vertigo of South Africa's violent apartheid years. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JJPN; BT; JKV; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 237.
1987, Pretoria. Four young black men have just been arrested for a horrific string of political murders. There's no doubt that they're guilty of everything they're accused of - and more. But in a society riven by brutal repression and racial tensions, are they assassins or freedom fighters? Peter Harris is the lawyer called upon to defend them and, as he constructs his case to save them from the death penalty, he comes to understand the violence they encountered growing up in the townships and the chain of events that led them to join the ANC, undergo training at Zuma's ... Read more
1987, Pretoria. Four young black men have just been arrested for a horrific string of political murders. There's no doubt that they're guilty of everything they're accused of - and more. But in a society riven by brutal repression and racial tensions, are they assassins or freedom fighters? Peter Harris is the lawyer called upon to defend them and, as he constructs his case to save them from the death penalty, he comes to understand the violence they encountered growing up in the townships and the chain of events that led them to join the ANC, undergo training at Zuma's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846272875
SKU
V9781846272875
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About Peter Harris
Peter Harris was born in Durban. After practising law for many years in South Africa, he was seconded to the National Peace Accord in the early 1990s, after which he headed the Monitoring Directorate of the Independent Electoral Commission for the 1994 election. Since then he has acted as a UN consultant in numerous countries and currently heads a large ... Read more
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