Little Ice Cream Boy (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition) - Jacques Pauw

Everyone else knows Gideon Goosen as a monster: a gangster, assassin and murderer, who made a pact with the devil and deserves to live out his days in a solitary cell in Pretoria Central. How is it possible that the son of a decorated, God-fearing security policeman could fall so low?

His mother blames it on his friends from the other side of the railway line in Randfontein, and also on a leggy prostitute from Nigel who became his obsession.

Gideon himself believes everything changed on an autumn morning when the fatal pellets from a pump-action shotgun cut short the life of an anti-apartheid activist in the driveway of his home.