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Freight Dogs

Paperback | English

By (author): Giles Foden

''Every new novel by Giles Foden is something to celebrate'' Paul Theroux
''An amazing and profound work, rich in memorable detail'' Jay Parini
''Foden has cleverly reworked the grand African adventure novel'' Aminatta Forna, Guardian
''A perceptive, compassionate history of an enormously complex conflict'' Irish Times
''Sharp and fast-paced. Foden does a fine job of locating the reader in the maelstrom of this brutal period in Congo''s past, taking us deep into the heart of a complex conflict'' Observer

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 nineteen-year-old cowherd fleeing Congo''s bloody war.

Taken in by this band of unlikely brothers, Manu hopes to reinvent himself. But no matter how fast he flies, trouble always seems to follow closely behind...

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Will deliver when available. Publication date 09 Jun 2022

Product Details
  • Format: Paperback
  • Weight: 300g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Jun 2022
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781409137429

About Giles Foden

Giles Foden was born in 1967 and spent much of his early life in Africa. He was educated at Cambridge University. He has worked as a barman a builder a journalist an academic and as a rapporteur for the European Commission. For ten years he was an editor and writer on the Times Literary Supplement and the Guardian and his writing has since been published in Granta Vogue Esquire The New York Times and Conde Nast Traveller where he is a contributing editor. His fiction includes The Last King of Scotland Ladysmith Zanzibar and Turbulence. The Last King of Scotland was made into an Oscar-winning feature film in 2006.

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