Author: Fletcher, Bruce.
Title: The Mampoer Spy. Back to the Future.
Description: Turnstream. 2020 1st edition. 192pp softcover. 8vo 0.3kg Mint copy ex publisher. ISBN: 9781990959585 After a civil war, relative peace has returned to the eastern part of a politically fragmented future South Africa. A group of hard-drinking professional soldiers – who’d left the regular army and joined the local commando in order to defend the farms are trying to rebuild their lives among the farming folk. The economy of the country has tanked and goods are scarce and expensive. The farming folk establish small scale commercial businesses of which the mampoer distillery is the most successful. The peaceful life in the valley is threatened and Madala, an ex-intelligence officer, becomes involved in a fight against the increasing stock theft and poaching in the valley. He uncovers a plot to forcefully drive the farmers from their land and the defence of the farms is jeopardised with the valley folk divided by traitors in their midst.

Keywords: south southern africa african fiction