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Yudel Gordon

Spring’s First Rain

Spring’s First Rain

The worst part of life on the Springbok Vlakte is the second half of winter. There is no rain whatever and the sun is a merciless tyrant, terrorising humans, burning the leaves off plants and turning the ground beneath your feet to dust. Spring is a different matter entirely. It

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Book 7 – Deluge

Book 7 – Deluge

This is the seventh novel of the Yudel Gordon Series.  Yudel Gordon is an eccentric prison psychologist working in Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa.  More about the Yudel Gordon stories can be found here. Almost everyone agreed the end of Apartheid was inevitable and necessary. But there were those who felt

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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 I was still unpublished, but in these attacks I saw plenty of material for thrillers and also

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DELUGE: My New Yudel Gordon Thriller

DELUGE: My New Yudel Gordon Thriller

Writing a thriller is different to writing any other kind of novel. The story’s structure is everything. Scenes have to follow each other logically and they have to draw the reader in so that he or she simply cannot put the book down. The reader simply must know what is

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Book 6 – The Top Prisoner Of C-Max

Book 6 – The Top Prisoner Of C-Max

This is the sixth novel of the Yudel Gordon Series.  Yudel Gordon is an eccentric prison psychologist working in Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa.  More about the Yudel Gordon stories can be found here. Enslin Kruger is a dying man, but he is the top prisoner in C-Max prison, and must

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Book 5 – Those Who Love Night

Book 5 – Those Who Love Night

This is the fifth novel of the Yudel Gordon Series.  Yudel Gordon is an eccentric prison psychologist working in Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa.  This book is set against the backdrop of post-Apartheid.  More about the Yudel Gordon stories can be found here. When Abigail Bukula, a young lawyer in the

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Book 4 – The October Killings

Book 4 – The October Killings

This is the fourth novel of the Yudel Gordon Series.  Yudel Gordon is an eccentric prison psychologist working in Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa.  This book is set against the backdrop of post-Apartheid.  More about the Yudel Gordon stories can be found here. Abigail Bukula was fifteen years old when her

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Book 3 – Closed Circle

This is the third novel of the Yudel Gordon Series.  Yudel Gordon is an eccentric prison psychologist working in Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa.  This book is set against the backdrop of Apartheid.  More about the Yudel Gordon stories can be found here. Yudel Gordon, the South African prison psychologist, is

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