Love and betrayal as SA burns
Andrew Robert Wilson’s debut novel is so much more than the hunt for a killer
15 May 2025 - 05:00
It’s 1986 and SA is burning. As Andrew Robert Wilson’s The Fourth Boy opens there’s a state of emergency in place, activists are being arrested and military conscription for white men is still compulsory.
One such man who has done his reluctant service is 23-year-old aspiring journalist Grant Asher. He recently lost his mother, who raised him as a single parent, and her parting words to him are contained in a letter. She tells him that his father lives in Oudtshoorn and reveals his surname...
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