Rayne Kruger

Charles Rayne Kruger (29 January 1922 – 21 December 2002) was a South African author and property developer.

Charles Rayne Kruger was born on 29 January 1922 in Queenstown, in the eastern Cape Province, the son of an unmarried 17-year-old daughter of a British Army officer. As his father had disappeared, his mother married Victor Kruger, a Johannesburg estate agent. and adopted a Cambodian daughter, Li-Da.

Publications

Tanker (novel), London: Longman's Green & Co, 1952 The Spectacle (crime novel), London: Longman's Green & Co, 1953 Young Villain With Wings (crime novel), London: Longman's Green & Co, 1953 My Name is Celia (novel), London: Longman's Green & Co, 1954 The Even Keel (crime novel), London: Longman's Green & Co, 1955 Ferguson (crime novel), London: Longman's Green & Co, 1956 Goodbye Dolly Gray: The Story of the Boer War (non-fiction), London: Cassell, 1959 The Devil's Discus (non-fiction), London: Cassell, 1964 All Under Heaven: A Complete History of China (non-fiction), Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2003