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Last King of Scotland

By Giles Foden

(15)

| Audio CD | 9780786158904

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Book Description

Shortly after his arrival in Uganda, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan is called to the scene of a bizarre accident: Idi Amin, careening down a dirt road in his red Maserati, has run over a cow. When Garrigan tends to Amin, the dictator, in his obsession for all things Scottish, appoints him as his Continue

Critics

Trapped by the tyrant's seductive charisma

Newly arrived in Uganda in the Seventies, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan becomes the personal physician of Idi Amin, having won his gratitude by removing a piece of Lego from the nose of his sick son. Gradually, the extent of Amin's megalomania an ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

Number One Id

When in the mid-Eighties I lived in the port of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, I lived in a city policed by gossip and run by rumour. While its citizens, flapping in white robes and black veils and wrappings, glided through the streets like formal ghosts, i ... (read full critics)

lrb published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010