BOOK REVIEW

Blind Faith is a political thriller straight out of South Africa's recent past. It spans the years 1989 to 1997. It is sophisticated, extremely well written and most entertaining. It is also a "quick read" because it absorbs the reader and moves right along.

Elena de Villiers, in 1989, accidentally got caught up in the tentacles of the worst arms of the apartheid state by willingly assisting an escaped prisoner from Robben Island, Vulani Mwelo. This act of mercy, involvement and commitment, when others shy away, is what gives heart and depth to this novel. It is the gesture that came unasked that gave hope to her life.