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Book review: The horrors of things you don’t see
They’re psychopaths, violent offenders, drug addicts, sexual deviants and social misfits. And these are the good guys.
Reviewer: Leandi Cameron
Book: Kill Yourself and Count to 10
Author: Gordon Torr
Courtesy of: Penguin Books
Rating: A chilling story, exposing a forgotten horror
In the notorious military camp known as The Vault, they are considered unfit to wear the South African Defence Force uniform. As part of a brutal rehabilitation programme, they become the experimental toys of a rogue psychiatrist.
Into this macabre world, conscript Lloyd Norton wanders innocently, due to a clerical error. He will never be the same again.
The novel, based on the real Apartheid-era camp Greefswald, not only rips open an all but forgotten chapter in a chilling history, but also tells a gripping rites-of-passage story. – BoksburgNews
