Too Late The Phalarope

The summary on the dust jacket of the first UK edition
reads in part; The setting is again South Africa but the
tragedy this time is of a white man who for complicated
reasons some of them not unconnected with his childhood
and training succumbs to the very temptations he might
have been thought strong enough to resist. His downfall is
recorded by his fathers sister who watched the train of
events half foreseeing the danger yet unable to prevent it
and now in anguish blames herself.[1] The main character
is Afrikaner policeman Pieter van Vlaanderen. While
usually enforcing the countrys laws he eventually breaks
the apartheid law outlawing sex between blacks and whites.
Phalaropes are shore birds found in Europe the Americas
Africa and Asia.