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Author Brabazon, James, 1972-

Title My friend the mercenary / James Brabazon.

Publication Info. New York : Grove Press, [2010]
©2010

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 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  966.62 BRA    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  966.62 B72    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  966.62 BRA    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  966.62 BR    Check Shelf
Description 457 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Note Originally published: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2010.
Summary Describes how an unlikely friendship forged between the author, a British journalist, and Nick Du Toit, his bodyguard and a notorious mercenary, during Liberia's civil war led to a covert plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea.
Subject Brabazon, James, 1972-
Du Toit, Nick.
Africa, West -- Politics and government -- 1960-
Liberia -- History -- Civil War, 1999-2003.
Equatorial Guinea -- Politics and government -- 1979-
Coups d'état -- Equatorial Guinea -- History -- 21st century.
Mercenary troops -- Equatorial Guinea -- Biography.
War correspondents -- Africa -- Biography.
War correspondents -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Journalists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Spine Title My friend the mercenary : a memoir
ISBN 9780802119759: $25.95
0802119751
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