Hints and tips:
...Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone By Lawrence Devlin PublicAffairs ₤15.99, 269 pages FT bookshop price: ₤12.79 When Ronan Bennett published The Catastrophist, his brilliant...
...It was in 1999 that Bennett’s writing moved into a new class with The Catastrophist, a finely made book set in the Belgian Congo c.1960, in the chaos of Patrice Lamumba’s battle for independence....
International Edition