A former Southern Africa correspondent of The Economist, Adam Roberts has contributed to the Times Literary Supplement and political journals in Africa and now works for The Economist in London.
It's a story stranger than fiction with an assortment of
larger-than-life characters that Roberts turns into a page-turner
with a surprising dose of humour.
*Soth Africa Times*
a gripping nonfiction thriller
*Bloomberg*
formidable research and plenty of interviews...a sparky,
revelation-filled account of one of the more bizarre examples of
exploitation in Africa...
*Metro*
The most terrifying thing about this chronicle of a failed coup
attempt in Equatorial Guinea is that it's not a Graham Greene novel
but a true story. An irresistibly lurid tale....he lifts the
curtain to the backrooms of power in postcolonial Africa.
*Publishers Weekly*
well researched and wonderfully gripping
*Financial Times*
Adam Roberts shows, with merciless precision, how the dogs of war
panicked where they should have been cool, and screwed up where
they should have been clinically efficient.
*Observer*
riveting and superbly researched...a brilliant, mordant, blackly
comic read.
*Sunday Times*
Impressively researched and briskly narrated...takes readers into a
world where slippery chancers and thuggish ex-special forces type,
mostly South African, rub shoulders with spooks and dodgy
financiers.
*Daily Mail Critic's Choice*
It's a story stranger than fiction with an assortment of
larger-than-life characters that Roberts turns into a page-turner
with a surprising dose of humour. * Soth Africa Times *
a gripping nonfiction thriller * Bloomberg *
formidable research and plenty of interviews...a sparky,
revelation-filled account of one of the more bizarre examples of
exploitation in Africa... * Metro *
The most terrifying thing about this chronicle of a failed coup
attempt in Equatorial Guinea is that it's not a Graham Greene novel
but a true story. An irresistibly lurid tale....he lifts the
curtain to the backrooms of power in postcolonial Africa. *
Publishers Weekly *
well researched and wonderfully gripping * Financial Times *
Adam Roberts shows, with merciless precision, how the dogs of war
panicked where they should have been cool, and screwed up where
they should have been clinically efficient. * Observer *
riveting and superbly researched...a brilliant, mordant, blackly
comic read. * Sunday Times *
Impressively researched and briskly narrated...takes readers into a
world where slippery chancers and thuggish ex-special forces type,
mostly South African, rub shoulders with spooks and dodgy
financiers. -- Philip Jacobson * Daily Mail Critic's Choice *
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