Love in the Time of Apartheid

A quasi-political thriller and love story set in 1960s Africa. Gat, aka Adriaan Gautier, has been given instructions by his Belgian superiors in the Congo: disappear. He begins a promising courtship with the daughter of a racist Cape Town police colonel. Hunter ably captures South Africa. There is daring, intrigue, and an ugly current of racism, but this is a love story at its core. Austere and well-told; an unlikely mix of espionage, apartheid, and love on the run. —Kirkus Reviews