num_pages: 185
description: In the dark days of apartheid a young schoolboy joins the South African Police Force. It is a time when brutality is commonplace and men don't cry.Johan Marais is exposed to extreme violence as he is transferred to Koevoet and takes part in the Border War. But it is his experiences in the townships of the East Rand as a member of the Riot Unit during the Eighties that are the most shocking. Living with bloodshed and hostility on a daily basis, Marais develops a serious drinking problem. Not realising that he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, spirals down into a world of corruption and decadence.Time Bomb looks at the other side of South Africa's political history and tells it from the perspective of an ordinary policeman. Sometimes amusing, often violent, always real, Marais writes for his colleagues, and for their families, but mostly for himself, to banish the demons at his door.
language: English
title: Timebomb: A Policeman's Story
publisher: Tafelberg