Red Dog

At the end of the eighteenth century, a giant strides the Cape Colony frontier - a legend, a polygamist, a swindler and a big talker; a rebel who sides with Xhosa chieftains against the Boers and the British; a savage enemy and a loyal ally.

Like the wild dogs who are always at his heels, Coenraad de Buys roams the shifting landscape of southern Africa, hungry and spoiling for a fight. This is his story; and the story of our blood-soaked history.