The Black Pimpernel

In March 1961 after giving a brief speech at a conference Nelson Mandela vanished. For the next eighteen months he was an outlaw living under assumed identities and in various disguises (sometimes as a chauffeur sometimes a gardener) as the South African police and secret services helped by MI5 and the CIA sought him in vain. His mission? To undergo military training and set up armed resistance to apartheid.