My Friend The Mercenary
โ Scribed by Du Toit, Nick;Brabazon, James
- Book ID
- 100575972
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 957 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Edinburgh, Equatorial Guinea, Equatorial Guinea.
- ISBN
- 1847679102
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
In a fly-blown bar in West Africa, war reporter James Brabazon found himself discussing military plans to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea with one of Africas most notorious mercenaries - his friend Nick du Toit. The Byzantine plot, its farcical execution and its tragic consequences led to Simon Mann and a host of celebrated guns-for-hire falling victim to their own avaricious plans, Machiavellian scheming and perverse double-crosses. In a twist of fate, James Brabazon remained free. His mercenary friend wasnt as lucky. Nick du Toit was supposed to serve thirty-four years in Black Beach Prison, Africa's most notorious jail - a sentence which James could have been serving alongside him. Their unlikely friendship began two years earlier on the bloody battlefields of the Liberian civil war. With Nick as his bodyguard, James was the only journalist to film behind rebel lines. Establishing him as a brave and talented filmmaker, the war tested Jamess physical and moral...
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Single Author : James Brabazon
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โฆ Subjects
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