Train in the Distance: A Journalist's Search for Truth, Freedom...and Revenge

By Mr Larry Stanley Butchins and Larry Butchins

Johannesburg, South Africa - early to mid-1970s: A young journalist campaigns against apartheid, its symbols and often brutal ramifications; searching for truth and freedom...freedom of expression, freedom of choice, freedom from fear. His quest eventually brings him to Israel, where his hopes seem to be on the verge of realization, only to be dashed by personal loss in a terrorist attack. The chilling truth behind the attack sends him on a further mission...for revenge. This based-on-fact story presents a different narrative about apartheid-South Africa: not told from a point of view of a black person suffering under that loathsome policy; but from the point of view of a young white journalist, with a strong social conscience, who passionately hates what the policy is doing to his country and its people, and faces the dire consequences of his anti-government stance. In effect, a white victim of apartheid. It covers the turbulent years of mid-1970s South Africa, fear and tragedy during the first Intifada in Israel...and the interlaced events of the First Gulf War, the eventual capture of Saddam Hussein...and an ironic twist.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 171890276X
• ISBN13: 9781718902763
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"