Borderline by Colin Ainsworth Sharp

Borderline

by Colin Ainsworth Sharp

W. H. Allen, 1983, [First Edition], ISBN 049102665X, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges, corners and covers, ex-lib with stamps on endpapers, sticker residue on back endpapers, tape to covers, age toned pages, dustjacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing, bumping, chipping, tears, creasing and minor soiling (see photographs)

“Gerrit de Kock has a ‘responsible’ job in a white business in Cape Town.  But his delicate, coffee-coloured skin and tightly curled hair prevent him from passing as white – unlike his sister, Tina, who leaves South Africa for married life in Frankfurt with white and wealthy Willi Heim.  Gerrit’s dissatisfaction increases.  He is young, bright and cleverer than his white bosses – and hungry for the successes which are denied men of his mixed blood.
In London the radical activists of the Azanian Freedom Revolutionary Army live in style.  Though dedicated to the overthrow of the white supremacist regime in South Africa, their rhetoric is for the television cameras only – until a South African agent pushes AFRA leader Douglas Hoyle under a London Underground train.  Though badly mutilated, Hoyle and AFRA plan revenge.  A revenge that will strike at the heart of the South African government, and combine the Freedom Fighters of SWAPO, disaffected revolutionaries form West Germany – and men like Gerrit de Kock.”