num_pages: 350
description: "Written with the pace of a thriller"—Times Literary Supplement. Red Dust is set in a rural South African town, where three people are about to meet their past. Sarah Barcant has left her law career in New York to assist an old friend as prosecutor on a Truth Commission hearing. Dirk Hendricks, a former police deputy, is being taken in handcuffs to the station where he once worked. There he will confront Alex Mpondo, the man he had tortured, who is now an MP.
language: English
title: Red Dust
titlecomplete: Red Dust
genres: Book Club, Historical Fiction, Historical, Africa, South Africa, School, Novels, Mystery, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 530
places: South Africa
publisher: W. W. Norton  Company