num_pages: 336
description: Harare 2000. Gabrielle is a newly-qualified lawyer fighting for justice for a young girl. Ben is an urbane and charismatic junior diplomat attached to Harare with the American embassy. With high-level pressure on Gabrielle to drop her case and Robert Mugabes youth wing terrorising his political opponents as he tightens his grip on power they begin a tentative love affair. But when both fall victim to a shocking attack their lives splinter across continents and their stories diverge forcing Gabrielle on a painful journey towards self-realisation.
language: English
title: An Act of Defiance
publisher: The Indigo Press