Into the Heart of Darkness. Confessions of Apartheid's Assassins

(Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 1997) 1868420582. 221 x 152 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 346, incl. index; plates. Merest trace of foxing to edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition. "For years the rumours persisted: the apartheid state was responsible for the continual disappearances and assasinations of anti-apartheid activists. Then, in November 1989, former security policeman Captain Dirk Coetzee made the announcement: 'I was the commander of the South African police death squad. I was in the heart of the whore.' Despite official denials and cover-ups, the rumours of apartheid's death squads have now been proved to be all too real. Hundreds of anti-apartheid activists were killed and thousands tortured by a group of bizarre assassins, the foot soldiers of apartheid's secret war. ... Into the Heart of Darkness will take you on a journey into the minds and lives of the men who went out to kill and kill again. What caused these souls to become so dark and guided them to so much evil?" .