Obituary: Mark Behr, charismatic academic, novelist, spy

Mark Behr, who has died in Johannesburg at the age of 52, wrote perhaps the most searing novel yet about the hypocrisy and moral rottenness at the heart of the Afrikaner establishment that imposed apartheid on South Africa. It was published in Afrikaans in 1993 as Die Reuk van Appels and in 1995 in English as The Smell of Apples.