Undercover with Mandela's Spies: The Story Of The Boy Who Crossed The Square

The South African national bestseller, now in audio.

HE WITNESSED A RACE-FUELLED MASSACRE AS A TEENAGER. THEN HE INFILTRATED THE RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS PLOTTING TO ASSASSINATE NELSON MANDELA.

In 1988, seventeen-year-old Bradley Steyn walked into Pretoria’s Strijdom Square and witnessed white supremacist Barend Strydom shooting black civilians. He held a dying man in his arms. That moment would follow him into the South African Navy, apartheid’s Security Branch and, ultimately, Nelson Mandela’s underground intelligence network.

Recruited as a classified government enforcer, Bradley later turned against the regime and operated as a double agent for the ANC’s Department of Intelligence and Security.

As neo-Nazis and members of apartheid’s military and police establishment worked to ignite a race war, Bradley and an unlikely team of former enemies infiltrated the conspiracy from within.

Their final mission was to stop a plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela at his presidential inauguration.

Narrated by acclaimed South African actor Ashley Dowds, Undercover with Mandela’s Spies is an explosive true-life account of espionage, betrayal, extremism, PTSD and the secret battle for South Africa’s democracy.

PRAISE

“A riveting narrative of an otherwise opaque shadow war that played out in South Africa... Compelling for both general readers and specialists seeking to understand undercover operations against extremism.”

Colonel (Ret.) Christopher P. Costa, Executive Director, International Spy Museum

“A rollicking read full of testosterone-driven treachery and treason.”

Marianne Thamm, Daily Maverick

“Illuminating beyond measure.”

Ambassador Thandi Lujabe-Rankoe