“A tremendous book about candor, honor, and race, a witness-bearing act of the rarest courage. No one who reads it could ever forget it.” —Michael Herr
“Here is truth-telling at its most exemplary and courageous. The remorseless exercise of a reporter’s anguished conscience gives us a South Africa we thought we knew all about: but we knew nothing.” —John le Carré
“Malan is bent on uncovering another level altogether of South African life, and he does so beautifully. . . . He sharply expands our understanding of his strange, strange country’s complexities.” —William Finnegan, The New York Times
“My Traitor’s Heart grips you by the throat and won’t let go.” —Peter Gorner, The Chicago Tribune
“A passionate, blazingly honest testament . . . Those who read it will never again see South Africa in quite the same way.” —Christopher Hope, Los Angeles Times Book Review
“A book that is part investigative reportage, part personal confession, and in all respects remarkable. . . . Penetrating, comprehensive, and—in its relentless accumulation of ghastly detail—heartbreaking.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
“Here, as in nothing I’ve read before, is the demotic voice of black and Afrikaner South Africa. . . . Triumphant.” —Salman Rushdie
“…an unflinching and intimate story of a man fighting against injustice in his homeland, even as he must come to terms with his own family’s poisonous role there.” —Austin Merrill, Vanity Fair