Little Ice Cream Boy by Jacques Pauw

Condition: very good.

JOURNALIST Jacques Pauw is the man who exposed the horrors emanating from the Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB), the strangely named dirty tricks and assassination squad that operated brutally and incompetently in the shadows of the apartheid government. He has written extensively about its activities, as well as producing television documentaries. And now he has turned his extensive knowledge and researches into fiction.

The little ice cream boy — his mother’s pet name for him — of the title is Gideon Goosen. And he is a thinly disguised Ferdi Barnard, the man currently in prison for the murder of academic David Webster. Pauw gave evidence against Barnard at his trial.