Description
Product ID: | 9780297868019 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Freight Dogs |
Authors: | Author: Giles Foden |
Page Count: | 416 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Thriller / suspense fiction, African history, Thriller / suspense, African history |
Description: | Select Guide Rating From the acclaimed author of The Last King Of Scotland, Freight Dogs explores the individual consequences of Africa's 'Great War', distilling a world-shaking conflict into the unputdownable story of one man's life. 1996: in a Ugandan dive bar, the ''freight dogs'' gather. An anarchic group of mercenary pilots from Texas, Russia, Kenya and Belgium who transport weapons between warring African nations, without allegiance. And tonight they have a new recruit - Manu, a 19-year-old cowherd fleeing Congo''s bloody war. |
Imprint Name: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Publisher Name: | Orion Publishing Co |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2021-09-16 |