Before Valentine’s Day of 2013, Oscar Pistorius was best known as an extraordinary athlete, the ‘Blade Runner’ who became the first amputee in history to compete in the Olympics. Everything changed after he shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp dead in the early hours of 14 February.
Overnight, the Olympian’s status as a role model was replaced by tales of erratic behaviour and a violent dark side.
In writing Chase Your Shadow John Carlin’s extensive research took him to London, Texas, Italy and Iceland, as well as, of course, to the infamous courtroom in to South Africa.
Carlin is reluctant to offer an opinion on whether or not Pistorius intended to shoot Steenhamp. “The brutal question on the lips of many was whether he felt more sorry for what he had done to Reeva Steenkamp, or what he had done to himself,” he writes.
