He wanted a war. And, for his sins, he got one.
James Brabazon was an ambitious young war reporter when he entered the chaos of the Liberian Civil War in 2002. Running with the infamous LURD rebels, he survived numerous deadly ambushes, the privations of dysentery and a dramatic hundred-mile escape from Government troops through dense equatorial jungle. He even had a bounty put on his head. Surrounded largely by child soldiers high on drugs, Brabazon was accompanied by Nick du Toit, a South African mercenary with a dark past. They quickly became best friends. Before long, Nick promised James the scoop of his life: a front seat, beside Simon Mann, in an audacious coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea. And the offer was too good to refuse . . .
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My Friend The Mercenary
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- A Note on Pronunciation
- Contents
- Map of Africa
- Map of West Africa
- Prologue: Black Beach
- Part One
- 1. Shake Hands with the Devil
- 2. Dead Presidents
- 3. A Journey Without Maps
- 4. Spider House Rules
- 5. University of Bullet
- 6. Whisky Papa
- 7. Charnel House
- 8. The Great Escape
- Part Two
- 9. A Stranger’s Hand
- 10. Blood Brothers
- 11. Wanderlust
- 12. The Revolution Will Be Televised
- 13. Too Tough to Die
- 14. Arms and The Mann
- Part Three
- 15. Simon Says
- 16. Lawyers, Guns and Money
- 17. Congo Mercenary
- 18. The End
- Epilogue: Illumination Rounds
- Acknowledgments
- Plates Section
- Copyright Page
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