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Freight Dogs / Giles Foden.
Van Pelt Library PR6056.O27 F74 2021
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foden, Giles, 1967- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--20th century.
- English literature.
- Soldiers of fortune--Africa--Fiction.
- Soldiers of fortune.
- Air pilots--Fiction.
- Air pilots.
- Military weapons.
- Transportation.
- Africa.
- Military weapons--Transportation--Fiction.
- Aeronautics, Commercial--Freight.
- Illegal arms transfers.
- Transport planes.
- Volcanologists.
- Congo (Democratic Republic).
- Uganda.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 401 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021.
- Summary:
- 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 19-year-old cowherd fleeing Congo's bloody war. Taken in by this band of unlikely brothers, he's soon seeing his vast country from above and falling in love with flying. But no matter how fast he flies, trouble follows closely behind. And when the past erupts back into this new life, Manu is forced to leave behind African skies for the chilly embrace of northern Europe. Will Manu be able to reinvent himself yet again? And is Belgian volcanologist Anke Desseaux the answer to his problems -- or simply another one of them?
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780297609100
- 0297609106
- 9780297868019
- 0297868012
- OCLC:
- 1257323658
- Publisher Number:
- 99988467020
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