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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Profile Books; First Thus edition (1 Jan 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1846682347
  • ISBN-13: 978-1846682346
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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"'Riveting and superbly researched... a brilliant, mordant, blackly comic read.' Sunday 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 'Well-researched and wonderfully gripping.' Financial Times 'An irresistibly lurid tale... he lifts the curtain to the backrooms of power in postcolonial Africa' Publishers Weekly 'Impressively researched and briskly narrated.' The Daily Mail"

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4.0 out of 5 stars A great boys story..., 19 Sep 2006
This review is from: The Wonga Coup: Simon Mann's Plot to Seize Oil Billions in Africa (Paperback)
This is a relatively good account of the "toffs 'n' mercenaries" in Africa story of a few years ago. It's also a pretty much a straight telling of the characters, history, lead up and aftermath of the events with a tiny splodge of socio-economic facts and figures and a brief insight into the general corruption that exists in Africa (more often than not as a direct result of Big Business).

Although some of the writing occasionally feels strangled in its attempts to connect the various disparate elements and in trying to create an "exciting" feel with regards to the details of the coup (Roberts is certainly no thriller writer....he works for The Economist)...this is a fascinating insight into a world in which you would have thought no longer existed.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Stranger than any fiction, 30 Nov 2006
This review is from: The Wonga Coup: Simon Mann's Plot to Seize Oil Billions in Africa (Paperback)
A very well written account of an astonishing story: this is what happens when bored ex-soldiers drink too much and start believing their own fantasies. The sheer amaturishness and bungling of these characters is breath-taking. Roberts writes well and the book is also well organised - neither too long nor too short. The one caveat is that there are no pictures and, despite the best descriptive efforts by Roberts, I cannot understand why pictures of the real people and real places he talks about are not included. I hope this is not an example of the publishers being too cheap.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Roberts Coup, 26 Jun 2006
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Adam Roberts has commited a thrilling account of the exploits of soldiers of misfortune in Africa. The book includes some amazing revalations about people who you'd might not think of as coup-plotters. I found the book to be a a real page turner, just the kind of book you'd wanna pick up at the airport to pass a four hour flight or so.
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