Most people feel that his first two novels, set in a fictionalized South Africa, are his best: "Riotous Assembly" and "Indecent Exposure".
Пребывание в ЮАР вдохновило его на романы Riotous Assembly (1971) и Indecent Exposure (1973, в русском переводе — «Оскорбление нравственности»).