'A gripping tale of tropical corruption' Spectator 'A genuine imaginative achievement' Daily Telegraph 'As convincing and terrifying a portrait of a capricious tyrant as I have ever read' Evening Standard In an incredible twist of fate, a Scottish doctor on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world's most barbaric figures: Idi Amin. Impressed by Dr. Garrigan's brazen attitude in a moment of crisis, the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his personal physician and closest confidante. Though Garrigan is at first flattered and fascinated by his new position, he soon awakens to Amin's savagery - and his own complicity in it. Horror and betrayal ensue as Garrigan tries to right his wrongs and escape Uganda alive.
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Book Details
Imprint
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publication Year
2021
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26 mm
Height
196 mm
Length
128 mm
Weight
252 gr
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An Amazing Journey in Africa!
This is an awesome book! Giles Foden's prose is magical and he knows how to leave the reader spell bound with the mystery of Idi Amin and with a mellowed thoughts for Africa.
Really a very important book to understand one the most notorious of the dictators the 21st century had seen.