“His loyalty was to Rhodesia, and he would do whatever it took to ensure it remained under white rule – ‘in civilised hands’, as Smith himself had once put it. And Campbell-Fraser was prepared to work without Smith’s knowledge, or… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“The Commander hates the Brits.’ As do I, he felt like adding. ‘He doesn’t usually stand for “God Save the Queen”, it’s true, but Roy and I go back a long way. And we happen to have complementary aims here,… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“Rachel was panicking. She'd actually lost sight of Gadlow. The cardinal bloody sin . Sandy was going to kill her, string her up outside… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“One evening after work, he had found himself walking in the diplomatic quarter of the city and passed the British embassy. He’d been oddly… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“Weale was in command of a detachment of forty-eight Selous Scouts, the most secretive and deadly of the Rhodesian special forces groups. The regiment… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“In the following months, he had supplemented these documents with other material, including a Zastava M57 pistol, the brutish-looking Yugoslavian copy of the Tokarev… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“The Scouts’ ‘pseudo’ teams had already captured dozens of rebels, and even when operations had failed had managed to sow confusion and paranoia among… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“He knew how it ended, because he had seen it before. It was always the same: the man with the gun didn’t even flinch… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“In the war against the Russians, a Finnish garrison had been stationed there to observe naval movements from the tower, until one night in… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“You know, this “Zimbabwe” you still believe in. It’s just a dream, my friend – or rather a nightmare. You think those fools can… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“But she’d been lucky to survive at all. The doomsday scenario Edmund Innes had outlined to her in 1969 hadn’t quite come to pass,… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“He remembered the morning of his birthday when she had given him the wallet, and Ben bounding onto the bed to give him his… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“She walked across the street and unlocked her car. As she squeezed in behind the wheel a picture emerged in her mind, as though… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“At the end of the avenue, a large villa was set back from the road with a surrounding fence covered in hessian. This was… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“Paul Dark lit a cigarette and raised it to his mouth. The moment the tip glowed, he inhaled deeply and leaned back on his… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“One of them threw a grenade into the air and a few seconds later it exploded below him, buffering the helicopter off course and… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“A stream of notes travelled through the ventilation shafts of a small nightclub in the city’s old quarter and drifted onto the maze of… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
