Killing for Profit: Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade (57 page)

The costs of research and travel for this book were partly covered by a grant from the Taco Kuiper Fund for Investigative Journalism, administered by the Valley Trust and the Wits Journalism Programme. My thanks to Margaret Renn, Anton Harber and Brigitte Read.

Writing a book is a selfish exercise. You cut yourself off, and hole yourself up in a room with your laptop, files and thoughts. The walls are soon plastered with torn-out notes, press cuttings, snippets of ‘vital’ information, ideas, stats and increasingly complex spider diagrams mapping out chapters. For months, everything but the book is ignored. You grow a scraggly beard. Simple daily chores go undone. You become increasingly obsessive and irritable when anything other than the book intrudes. Your friends start to make
jokes about Boo Radley and Howard Hughes. As weeks turn to months, the process takes a toll, particularly on those you love.

This book could not have been written without the immense selflessness and support of my partner, Trish. More than anyone, she deserves praise. She didn’t baulk when I decided to resign from my job to write it – she allowed me to live a dream, even at times when the deadline pressures made it seem more like a nightmare. She gave far more than I deserved and I am eternally grateful.

My father Robert and my mother Anita gave me a love of history, storytelling and writing, and encouraged my single-minded pursuit of a career in journalism, even though it sometimes worried them. Sadly my mother is not here to see this.

Nor is Marléne Burger – an indomitable journalist who took me under her wing all those years ago. I miss you both.

JULIAN RADEMEYER

JOHANNESBURG

SEPTEMBER 2012

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