Stevens, Pat

Patrick John Stevens was born in Johannesburg in the same month Steve Bantu Biko was born, December 1946 was also the month Alan Paton completed his novel Cry, the Beloved Country, so some characters in the early Pat Stevens novels derive from both these sources. The four books in the Greatest Game series, describe the events leading to the 1994 South African transition to democracy, detailing the scepticism of the press that almost derailed the process. A fictional hero named Rupertheimer masterminds the transition, and leads South Africa to a fledgling democracy, despite the interfering libe...