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Writing the Book

This is a section about writing the books, doing the interviews and getting the inspiration for the books

The Writing of Closed Circle

The Writing of Closed Circle

The day in the late 1980s when I visited the Oudtshoorn township should have been an unremarkable one, but because a councillor of the township had been killed by a mob not long before, because I was being accompanied by a member of the local comrades and because the security

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The Bad Old Days and Closed Circle

The Bad Old Days and Closed Circle

Most South Africans complain about the way the country is run. And, heaven knows, we have reason to complain. We all know about rising prices, political bosses living off the fat of the land while your supermarket trolley becomes increasingly unaffordable. And then, Eskom plans a price increase few can

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The Prison Doctor: the Kidnapping

The Prison Doctor: the Kidnapping

After years in the prison system Beloved Childe truly believes that all other prison personnel see the dangers posed by many of the inmates. And she is right in most cases. She knows that prison guards are simple men and they see the inmates the way enemy soldiers see prisoners

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A Web of Relationships

A Web of Relationships

Magnuson, a ruthless killer, is faced with approaching death by lethal injection. Escape from Death Row is almost impossible. His only chance lies in Gillian Patterson, the new prison doctor. He can see her weakness, and plans to exploit it. It is clear that life has not been easy for

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An Introduction to The Prison Doctor

An Introduction to The Prison Doctor

Everyone who has the task of hiring people sometimes makes mistakes. Prison authorities are no different. Hiring Gillian Patterson as a prison doctor was such a mistake. She came from two failed marriages, one to a good man who bored her, and the other to a rotten man who almost

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Beloved Childe and The Gathering

Beloved Childe and The Gathering

Cults have been a reality since the days when witchcraft was commonly practised, and even before. Membership of a cult appeals to many. The member becomes part of a closed community and enjoys the comfort of being part of something important and exclusive. Like mainstream religion, the adherent may feel

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The Creating of Beloved Childe

The Creating of Beloved Childe

 The creation of Beloved Childe, the hero* of The Gathering, came about almost accidentally. She appeared for the first time as an important but minor character in The Top Prisoner of C-Max, a Yudel Gordon story. In that story she is visiting from the United States to find and punish

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Common Purpose

Common Purpose

Under the Common Purpose doctrine anyone who was present at a homicide and was judged to be of one mind with the killer was also guilty. If Common Purpose is applied, instead of being found guilty as an accessory, the onlooker can also be judged a murderer. Judge Meyer was

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The Events that Inspired DELUGE

The Events that Inspired DELUGE

As the old political order started to fall away in South Africa, the changes in the country affected everyone. Many of the unfranchised majority, especially young people, who were going to feel themselves free for the first time, were seized by a great urgency. Was it possible, they wondered, that

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The Creating of Yudel Gordon

The Creating of Yudel Gordon

The first Yudel Gordon story was entitled A LONELY PLACE TO DIE. At the time there had been a succession of attacks on well-known opponents of Apartheid. Some of them resulted in assassinations. I was still unpublished, but in these attacks I saw plenty of material for thrillers and also

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