Wonga Coup Guns, Thugs, and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa

Name: Wonga Coup Guns, Thugs, and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa
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ISBN: 9781586485009

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Authors: Adam Roberts

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Equatorial Guinea is a tiny country roughly the size of the state of Maryland. Humid, jungle covered, and rife with unpleasant diseases, natives call it Devil Island. Its president in 2004, Obiang Nguema, had been accused of cannibalism, belief in witchcraft, mass murder, billion-dollar corruption, and general rule by terror. With so little to recommend it, why in March 2004 was Equatorial Guinea the target of a group of salty British, South African and Zimbabwean mercenaries, travelling on an American-registered ex-National Guard plane specially adapted for military purposes, that was originally flown to Africa by American pilots? The real motive lay deep below the ocean floor: oil. In

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List price: $21.99
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 8/28/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Maps


List of Characters


Prologue



The Ocean of Oil



The Rise of Mann



Mad Uncle Macias



The Albatross of War



Obiang in Charge



The Gushing Prize



The Three Hundred Days



Smelly and the Priest



Assembling the Wongamen



Plans and Documents



Future Moto



Filthy Lucre



Enter Scratcher



Money and Recruits



Spain



Get Your Guns



The Big Push



Strike One



The Wonga Coup (Mark One)



The Wonga Coup (Mark Two)



Playa Negra Pedicure



Send Me a Splodge



Smiling and Dying



Riggs and the Oil Firms



The Price of Failure



Thatcher Falls



Back from the Dead


Epilogue


Writing The Wonga Coup


Selected Bibliography


Index