Book description
What would it be like to become Idi Amin's personal physician?
Giles Foden's bestselling thriller is the story of a young Scottish
doctor drawn into the heart of the Ugandan dictator's surreal and
brutal regime. Privy to Amin's thoughts and ambitions, he is both
fascinated and appalled. As Uganda plunges into civil chaos he
realises action is imperative - but which way should he jump?
Giles Foden, who grew up in Africa, was for three years an
assistant editor of the Times Literary Supplement and then joined the
staff of the Guardian. In 1998 Foden won the Whitbread First Novel
Award for The Last King of Scotland, which was followed in 1999 by
Ladysmith - two novels which, according to Alan Massie writing in the
Scotsman, 'establish him as the most original and interesting novelist
of his generation'.
