Charles van Onselen is the acclaimed author of The Small Matter of a Horse, The Fox and the Flies, Masked Raiders, and The Seed is Mine, which won the Alan Paton and Herskovits prizes and was voted as one of the 100 best books to emerge from Africa during the 20th century. He has been honoured with visiting fellowships at Yale, Cambridge, and Oxford, and was invited to be the inaugural Oppenheimer Fellow in the WEB Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Studies at Harvard. He is currently Research Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria.

"This enthralling saga of crime, passion, and betrayal, is a compelling portrait of one of empires great, unsung anti-heroes. The book is a scintillating achievement." Jean Comaroff, Harvard University

Charles van Onselen is the acclaimed author of The Small Matter of a Horse, The Fox and the Flies, Masked Raiders, and The Seed is Mine, which won the Alan Paton and Herskovits prizes and was voted as one of the 100 best books to emerge from Africa during the 20th century. He has been honoured with visiting fellowships at Yale, Cambridge, and Oxford, and was invited to be the inaugural Oppenheimer Fellow in the WEB Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Studies at Harvard. He is currently Research Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria.

"This enthralling saga of crime, passion, and betrayal, is a compelling portrait of one of empires great, unsung anti-heroes. The book is a scintillating achievement." Jean Comaroff, Harvard University

Charles van Onselen is the acclaimed author of The Small Matter of a Horse, The Fox and the Flies, Masked Raiders, and The Seed is Mine, which won the Alan Paton and Herskovits prizes and was voted as one of the 100 best books to emerge from Africa during the 20th century. He has been honoured with visiting fellowships at Yale, Cambridge, and Oxford, and was invited to be the inaugural Oppenheimer Fellow in the WEB Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Studies at Harvard. He is currently Research Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria.

"This enthralling saga of crime, passion, and betrayal, is a compelling portrait of one of empires great, unsung anti-heroes. The book is a scintillating achievement." Jean Comaroff, Harvard University