Steeped in Blood: The Life and Times of a Forensic Scientist

This is a fascinating and frank account of an intelligence agent's life and work during apartheid South Africa. Besides being an honest depiction of day-to-day life as a spy, from the routine of bureaucratic paper-pushing to the excitement of covert field ops, A Spook's Progress takes you behind the scenes of the negotiation process that led to the 1994 election and a democratic South Africa.