“A highly engaging, riveting, and suspenseful read into an important faction of the South African underground revolutionaries in their struggle to overthrow the apartheid government.” — Albert Williams-Myers, SUNY New Paltz

“Mr. La Guma writes simply, sensibly avoiding panoramic sweep: in his two previously-observed main characters, Beukes and Elias, one sees reflected all the squalor of the South African city.” — The Listener

“An iron statement of things as they are, with no false comforts offered and the dawn of a very distant hope.” — The Observer

“ . . . humane, careful and very moving; it is propaganda for the truth, a work of art.” — New Statesman