"-'A bold, brilliantly researched and fascinating book.' Victoria Glendinning, Daily Telegraph 'This spellbinding account of a famous man reveals [him] as enchanting, ambiguous inspiring, complex, misleading, sometime admirable, sometimes risible - and sometimes as a shockingly culpable fabulist and liar... Jones has succeed brilliantly, and the result - not least because he has organised this mass of material so well, and written his account so beautifully - reads like a thriller and a Gothic romance in one. 'This is not a hatchet job. Jones did not set out to attack Post or diminish his reputation. Laurens van der Post told lies, and told tales, and Jones has here brilliantly told the tale of his lies - and of his achievements. It is an unputdownably good read.' A.C. Grayling, Financial Times -'Riveting... JDF Jones does for van der Post what Michael Crick did for Jeffrey Archer.' Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Daily Mail -'JDF Jones has performed a difficult task with masterly care and, it has to be said, with a deep and virtuous respect for the truth.' J.W.M. Thompson, Literary Review -'At every page of this huge, hilarious book, one is tempted to mutter: Whatever next?' The Economist
