Daily Maverick and Maverick451 are proud to announce that pre-orders are now open for the upcoming publication of Man Alone: Mandela's Top Cop - Exposing South Africa's Ceaseless Sabotage by award-winning journalist and author Caryn Dolley.

For the first time, and in full sordid detail, Man Alone tells the riveting story not told.

"Caryn Dolley's Man Alone reads like a who's who at the interface of politics, the underworld, and the shadow of South Africa's ugly past.

"The book is principally based on the account of ANC underground operative-turned-intelligence officer, whose efforts to confront gangsterism and related organised crime turned him from hunter of criminals into the hunted." - Professor Thuli Madonsela

A story of Mandela's top cop, steeped in apartheid-era sabotage across local and global criminal investigations spanning decades. Add in nefarious individuals, from an informant once close to Colombia's Pablo Escobar, to several suspected Cape Town crime kingpins, the stakes only get higher.

This is the scandal that has lacerated the South African Police Service, and implicated some of the country's top cops and politicians.

Dolley provides unprecedented insight into how apartheid-era policing structures lay the foundations for cop-gangster collusion and how these have endured into democracy.

With exclusive access to retired policeman André Lincoln's life, Dolley exposes the dirty ploys that have swung South Africa's trajectory; how street-level killings could be flashpoints of deep state proxy wars; and raises suspicions about who...