Guerillas Author:V.S. Naipaul On a troubled Caribbean island, Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials coexist in a state of suppressed hysteria. A white man, the exiled former hero of the South African resistance comes to work and to help, bringing with him his mistress, an Englishwoman excited by fantasies of native power and sexuality, blindly unaware of t... more »he possible consequences of her acts. These two and a young half-breed leader of the 'Revolution' - a man possessed by his own crippling visions of power and of an England where he was briefly celebrated as a symbol of Third World consciousness - act out a gripping drama of death, sexual violence, and political and spiritual impotence that throws into sharp focus the ravages history can make on human lives.« less