About the Author

David Blair was Zimbabwe correspondent of the Daily Telegraph before being forced to leave by the Mugabe government in June 2001. Winner of the 2001 Young Journalist of the Year award.

Reviews

"[A] valuable addition to the post-colonial African library... [Blair] is able to put flesh on ludicrous but extremely dangerous characters...Blair's book is the vibrant storytalling of a newspaper journalist who finds himself in the middle of an astonishing story."

"A dramatic eyewitness account of the recent land invasions.... timely...riveting on the last three years of mayhem...a superb chronicle of a campaign during which laws of land ownership were torn up and distinguished judges openly defied."