The Wonga Coup
- Synopsis
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In March 2004, a planeload of South African, British, and Zimbabwean mercenaries were detained by Zimbabwean authorities and accused of involvement in a plot to overthrow the president of Equatorial Guinea, setting off a scandal that would come to involve Mark Thatcher, son of the former British Prime Minister. Roberts (staff correspondent of The Economist) has here attempted to reconstruct the origins of the coup, unsurprisingly rooted in the politics of oil, and describe how it unraveled. Among his sources were active participants in the coup and spy novelist Frederick Forsyth, whose The Dogs of War was a fictionalized account Forsyth's own involvement in an earlier failed British attempt to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea in the 1970s that closely paralleled the 2004 incident. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
- Copyright:
- 2006
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781586485320
- Publisher:
- PublicAffairs
- Date of Addition:
- 09/20/12
- Copyrighted By:
- Adam Roberts.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
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English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
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History,
Military,
Nonfiction,
Law, Legal Issues and Ethics,
Philosophy,
Politics and Government
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