The Secret Negotiators (Book 11 of 12)

The Secret Negotiators tells the hidden story of the conversations that helped pull South Africa back from the edge of catastrophe and toward democracy. Behind the public speeches, televised negotiations, and historic photographs was another world of quiet meetings, secret messages, intelligence channels, businessmen, priests, academics, politicians, and intermediaries who carried information between people who could not yet afford to trust one another. From Pollsmoor and the early back channels to Mells Park, the violence of the early 1990s, the assassination of Chris Hani, and the terrifying final months before the 1994 election, this book follows the people who kept talking when South Africa seemed determined to tear itself apart. A gripping story of secrecy, courage, compromise, betrayal, and extraordinary political risk, The Secret Negotiators reveals the largely unseen human machinery behind one of the most remarkable transitions in modern history.