The Last King of Scotland - Hardcover

Foden, Giles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375403604 ISBN 13: 9780375403606

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 1998

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Book by Foden Giles

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The reluctant personal physician to Idi Amin, Scottish civil servant Nicholas Garrigan, is drawn despite himself to the charismatic but brutal dictator, until a plot against Amin awakens him to the unspeakable horror and cruelty of the regime

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rigan has fled his native Scotland, and his parents' expectations, to take a position as a doctor in a remote rural outpost of Central Africa. Shortly after his arrival in Uganda, he is called to the scene of a bizarre car accident: Idi Amin, manically driving his red Maserati down the dirt tracks of Garrigan's small village, has run over a cow. Garrigan binds Amin's sprained wrist and puts the incident behind him, until a letter arrives from the Minister of Health informing him that Amin--in his obsession with all things Scottish--has ap-pointed Garrigan his personal physician. Garrigan is instructed to settle into State House, on the grounds of Amin's residence, immediately.  

Later, Garrigan will reflect that had he known what awaited him, had he foreseen the terrifying concatenation of events this decision would set in motion, he would have boarded the first plane back to Scotland. He will wonder why it never occurred to him to simply say no. But--flattered, disarmed, and in

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• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0375403604
• ISBN 13: 9780375403606
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 335