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Jackie Grobler An unusual thriller with Pretoria from the Boer War as a backdrop. In the early morning hours of March 15, 1901 Salome de Waal is awakened by an urgent knock on her bedroom dsk window. This is the Boer scout Hans van Zyl who seek hiding his khaki stalkers. Hans, an old friend of Salome's wounded brother, Pete, is Salome's only contact with the Boers on the battlefield. How she must understand dsk the excitement Hans visits every dark moon mean? She is married, though she regarded her husband, Albert, as a traitor because he was the British dsk occupation force works. Then there are the charming Major. Bruce Symington, who captivated by Salome's beauty and her otherness. Salome gets so entangled in the espionage network in Pretoria than in her own confused feelings, her sense of duty and her political beliefs. Only when his assisting nurse in the Irene concentration camp work, the reality of war for her business and take a course she could not provide it. Events that go fast and have a realistic view of the background given care of a very tight story that the reader swept along. About the Author Dr. Jackie Grobler is a historian of Pretoria with an exceptional knowledge of the Anglo-Boer War, in this compelling novel background offered. He is available for interviews.
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following section Clarence van Buuren: The man behind the sunglasses Chris Marnewick Clarence Gordon dsk van Buuren in 1957 was convicted of the murder of Myrna Joy Aachen and executed. He still remembered to the end pleaded. The case was controversial for several reasons. It was claimed that a provider to look after a séance has retrieved. There was evidence of a sexual relationship between Van Buuren and Aachen. And there was sexual mutilation of the body. Women outside the court in long lines waiting for the trial to attend dsk and trample each other when the doors opened. Van Buuren with them flirt during the trial. The evidence led in court is just the tip of the iceberg. The docket tell much more. Information indicates that Van Buuren a narcissistic psychopath, and a sadist especially women harassed dsk and tortured. An emotional vampire. A sadistic sex killer. But there was none of this in the court case. Also not in the newspapers. The case record in all places where it should be kept disappearing - the court, the Court of Appeal, the Attorney General's office and the provincial archives. The author made it to the national archive detected in 2010 after more than 60 years was overlooked. It should have been destroyed long ago, but it kept detective and his widow has given to the author. The detective did not press statements made and the contents of the dossier is still secret. The dossier says a thorough police investigation. The author wrote the book on two legs: What really happened, as he reconstructed. And how he went to 50 years of interest in the case eventually traced the file h