Author : Giles Foden
Narrated By : Mirron E. Willis
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Runtime : 14 hours
Type : Historical
Price : $26.95
"A sobering reality check and an impressive work of fiction." --Washington Times
"An affecting, chilling historical novel." --New York
"Lurid and delightful, written with wit and real maturity." --Kirkus Reviews
"Genuinely beautiful and disturbing." --Village Voice
"Garrigan is the perfect foil for Amin, whose overwhelming physical presence, peacockish rhetoric and cold-blooded savagery are so well captured as to make this novel more than a mesmerizing read: it is also a forceful account of a surrealistic and especially ugly chapter of modern history." --Publishers Weekly
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 Maserati, has hit a cow. When Garrigan tends to Amin, the dictator, obsessed with all things Scottish, appoints him as his personal physician. So begins a fateful dalliance with the African leader whose Emperor Jones-style autocracy would transform into a reign of terror.
In The Last King of Scotland, Foden's Amin is as ridiculous as he is abhorrent: a self-proclaimed cannibal who, at the end of his eight years in power, would be responsible for 300,000 deaths. As Garrigan awakens to his patient's barbarism--and his own complicity in it--we enter a venturesome meditation on conscience, charisma, and the slow corruption of the human heart.
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