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Little Ice Cream Boy
Jacques Pauw
EAN: 9780143025924 Format: Trade Paperback Release Date: 1 April 2009	Recommended Retail Price: R190 Buy Now:

'The street was quiet and deserted . . . a few yellow leaves fluttered to the ground and a brilliant blue sky beckoned through skeletal branches. It was a perfect day for murder.' From the photograph she keeps beside her bed, Maria Goosen will always remember her son as her 'little ice cream boy', smiling from the frame on a beach in Margate with a cone in his hand. 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, others 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. Set against the backdrop of the dying days of apartheid, and inspired by a true story and events that really happened, Jacques Pauw’s explosive debut novel exposes the raw, seamy underworld of gangsterism and brutality when life was cheap and fear was everywhere. « Back

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More Please Date: 2010-02-17

I loved his writing although a bit vulgar but i definitely want to read more books by this man. He made me want to know more about our sordid hi...

I loved his writing although a bit vulgar but i definitely want to read more books by this man. He made me want to know more about our sordid history and put things into perspective for me. Understand the anger that some people have ...

By: Alison read more close

A powerful step back Date: 2010-01-07

My wife agreed with Jacques mother, language too strong for her. All this happened while I was doing my military service, spent 2 years buildi...

My wife agreed with Jacques mother, language too strong for her. All this happened while I was doing my military service, spent 2 years building a base north of Pretoria, and had no idea of what was going on..An amazing journey..thank you Jacques.. my daughter read it in 3 days and was engrossed, shocked by the truth that it portrays of that time..

By: Martin read more close

What a read! Date: 2010-01-02

One day flat, could not put it down!! A reality check and insight into how life can change from one day to another and how the "snowball" can ...

One day flat, could not put it down!! A reality check and insight into how life can change from one day to another and how the "snowball" can take you for a ride you or the people around you would never have expected. Scary!

By: Roland Turvey read more close

Its the Bomb Date: 2009-08-04

Wow...what a ride! Like a 750 Katana. Maybe even better than a Deon Meyer.

Wow...what a ride! Like a 750 Katana. Maybe even better than a Deon Meyer.

By: Stephan Viljoen

Little ice cream boy Date: 2009-07-21

Fantastic! This man knows how to write, how to capture the imagination, how to make you want to know MORE. Thank you!!

Fantastic! This man knows how to write, how to capture the imagination, how to make you want to know MORE. Thank you!!

By: Lollos Rodseth