The book Craig recommended to me, Apartheid Guns and Money—A Tale of Profit by Hennie van Vuuren, was a brick, a good six hundred pages long, plus a number of illustrations to show how, when, and from whom South Africa bought weapons and oil—despite official sanctions. As I flipped through the pages, I got a glimmer of a motive that was far more concrete and actionable than the vague notion that Palme was among the foremost of apartheid’s countless enemies.
