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What would it be like to become Idi Amin's personal physician? Giles Foden's best-selling 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 pContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010
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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)
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- English Books
- Paperback 360 Pages
- Edition: Film Tie-in Ed
- ISBN-10: 0571232884
- ISBN-13: 9780571232888
- Publisher: Faber and Faber
- Pub date: Jan 18, 2007
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette and Others
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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)