Burned: The Spy South Africa Never Caught

Author:   Sue Dobson ,  Clare Staniforth
Publisher:   Tantor Audio
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9798212960984


Publication Date:   05 September 2023
Format:   Audio  Audio Format
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"""An unflinching memoir of a spy during a tumultuous time and unsavory alliances. Dobson recounts her recruitment, training, and espionage with rare self-awareness."" --Henry R. Schlesinger, author of Honey Trapped From the snowy Soviet shooting range to the heat and dust of Africa, nothing is what it seems. And neither is Sue Dobson. The image of South Africa in the 1980's as the golden paradise on the tip of the African continent conceals a brutal, racist Apartheid regime. Those who oppose it risk their lives. Beauty and brutality go hand in hand. Sue Dobson, a young white South African woman lives a 'legend'--a life where she pretends to conform, moving easily through the echelons of the racist government in her work as a journalist, whilst concealing her espionage and military training in the Soviet Union, and her intelligence work for the banned African National Congress. Matters come to a head when sinister forces try to derail the Namibian independence process and Sue's cover is blown during a difficult honey trap operation, bringing the Cold War to Africa, and leading to her desperate flight across Southern Africa with the Apartheid security police snapping at her heels."

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Author:   Sue Dobson ,  Clare Staniforth
Publisher:   Tantor Audio
Imprint:   Tantor Audio
ISBN:  

9798212960984


Publication Date:   05 September 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Sue Dobson was born in South Africa and witnessed Apartheid firsthand. Wanting to contribute to a democratic South Africa for all, she joined the African National Congress (ANC) and was trained as an intelligence officer/spy in the Soviet Union. She was deployed in South Africa and infiltrated the government propaganda department, interviewed Apartheid ministers, and had a honey trap affair with a police chief involved with the Namibian independence process. She was 'burned' when she failed an enhanced security check for the State President's office, prompting her escape across southern Africa with the security police at her heels. Clare Staniforth has a BA in live performance and has worked as a voice-over artist for over a decade. Her passion for teaching led her to become a drama teacher, as well as an executive voice and speech coach. She narrates books in a variety of genres, including mindfulness and meditation, biography, fiction, children's literature, and fantasy.

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