Reconciliation for the Dead
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A gripping thriller of political intrigue and moral reckoning in Apartheid-era South Africa.
Haunted by past actions, Claymore Straker seeks redemption by testifying to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, revealing his involvement in the South African Border War. As he recounts his experiences as a young paratrooper in Angola, a dark conspiracy unfolds, challenging everything he thought he knew about war and sacrifice.
Enmeshed in a web of political deceit and shocking brutality, Clay must confront his demons and expose the truth, even if it means risking everything. For readers seeking a suspenseful exploration of morality, justice, and the long shadows of history.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Based on actual events, Hardisty's searing third Claymore Straker thriller (after The Evolution of Fear), a tale of racial hatred, greed, and corruption, might break the reader's heart or tear it out. In 1996, Clay returns from exile to South Africa, where he testifies before Desmond Tutu's newly formed Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the hope of being granted amnesty for alleged war crimes. Flash back to 1981, when Clay was a 21-year-old South African paratrooper fighting communist forces in Angola's civil war. Clay and his best friend, Eben Barstow, witness and are forced to participate in torture, massacres of humans and animals, and warped medical experiments. In transcripts of his trial, Clay, who was suffering from delusions and other mental illnesses at the time he was dishonorably discharged from the army, asserts that the truth must be told. He testifies not only to seek forgiveness but to speak for the dead for whom he feels that he and his country are responsible, unforgettably personifying South Africa's troubled history. The writing can be disturbingly graphic but it also at times achieves the level of genuine poetry.
