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The Wonga coup : guns, thugs and a ruthless determination to create mayhem in an oil-rich corner of Africa / Adam Roberts.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roberts, Adam.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political corruption--Equatorial Guinea--History--21st century.
- Political corruption.
- Coups d'état--Equatorial Guinea--History--21st century.
- Coups d'état.
- Mercenary troops--Equatorial Guinea--History--21st century.
- Mercenary troops.
- Mercenary troops--Great Britain--History--21st century.
- Mercenary troops--South Africa--History--21st century.
- Mercenary troops--Zimbabwe--History--21st century.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects--Equatorial Guinea--History--21st century.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Equatorial Guinea--Politics and government--1979-.
- Equatorial Guinea.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : PublicAffairs, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A real life version of THE DOGS OF WAR in which a band of mercenaries plots to over throw a venal government of the newly oil-rich nation of Equatorial Guinea
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The ocean of oil
- pt. 2. The three hundred days
- pt. 3. The big push.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : Profile Books, 2006; sub-title on original ed. The British mercenary plot to seize oil billions in Africa.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-290) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-09530-0
- 9786613095305
- 1-58648-532-6
- OCLC:
- 721194333
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