review: in this book, general johan booysen reveals the truth on what was happening back in the 1960’s, from how he dropped out of school after failing standard 9 and pursued his dream of becoming a policeman, shobashobane massacre, highway heists, the assassination of colonel chonco, etc.when johan booysen hears that the new provincial police chief takes backhanders from a durban businessman, he decides to give her a benefit of the doubt. but the evidence becomes impossible to ignore and he soon gets dragged down the corridors of power and politics into a web of intrigue, deceit and betrayal that, at times, he has trouble making sense of. only when he is arrested, handcuffed and tossed into a cell does booysen realise just how ruthless those opposed to him are an opposition he comes to call the ‘cabal’ and whom he believes have more blood on their hands than the so--called cato manor death squad with which he is closely associated. blood on their hands traces johan booysen’s life and career from patrolling the streets of amanzimtoti in the 1970’s to his rise in 2010 to major general and head of kzn’s directorate for priority crime investigation unit, the hawks. but his tenure is short--lived. when booysen decides to take on those so determined to be rid of him, each battle he wins is met by hostility and further efforts to shut him out of the criminal justice system. but capitulating is not in his dna.