Jeremy Vearey, ex-MK cadre and bodyguard to Madiba, is the deputy provincial commissioner of the Western Cape SAPS. With this memoir he paints a wide-angle portrait of policing, crime and politics in the Western Cape. Despite its frequent humour, a “dark stream” runs beneath the text: the price that the author has paid for following his calling.
An intimate account of what it means when a revolutionary becomes a high-ranking actor in law and order.