Point Blank

Description

This is a novel about the men who managed a potentially dangerous explosives manufacturing complex in the time of South Africa’s 1970’s revolution. It takes you into the manufacture of gun powder, detonators, safety fuse and dynamite and the need for safety, and the drama when safety can no longer be relied upon. It details the duties, the frustrations, the escapades and accidents of a chief executive’s life. It takes you into the lives of senior executives and their secretaries. It takes you into the development of a black trade unionist fighting serious prejudice at a time when labour laws were beginning to be modified to allow the legal function of black trade unions. It is sometimes violent in content but realistic, not gratuitous: it is sexual because it describes the behavior of men and women working in close and dramatic circumstances. It is written by someone who was there, and who presents a readable but authentic picture of the challenges of managerial existence posed by a particular manufacturing process at a specific time in our history.