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Last of the pirates. the search for Bob Denard

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Libro Last of the pirates. the search for Bob Denard. This riveting book gives an account of an intrepid young woman’s eccentric quest, as Samantha Weinberg pursues one of the last of a dying breed: an elusive French mercenary who plied his trade, ruthlessly, throughout the African continent. The Comoros are small specks in the Indian Ocean, four volcanic islands known for their beauty and for ylang-ylang, an exotic flower whose extract is widely used in French perfumes. For many years they were also the home of Bob Denard, who arrived by way of Katanga, the Congo, Yemen, Angola, Biafra, Gabon, and Benin. Once in the Comoros, he overthrew two presidents in three years. In 1989 he, too, was overthrown, and then he disappeared. Last of the Pirates is a thrilling story of beauty, intrigue, cruelty, and murder: a book about an exotic place few of us have ever imagined, and about a murderous, machista culture that aimed to transform it. Libro Last of the pirates. the search for Bob Denard.

1 valoración en Last of the pirates. the search for Bob Denard

  1. Catherine

    About mid-way through the book I got hung up on the title of the book. Bob Denard is a mercenary, not a pirate, so the title of this book doesn’t make sense to me. If anyone out there has an explanation, please let me know!

    Otherwise the book was fine, nothing outstanding. It’s basically the author’s interpretation of the history of the Comoros since independence based on a number of personal interviews. As the author acknowledges in the book, people don’t necessarily tell her the truth all the time so it’s a bunch of stories from a variety of people some of which may have elements of truth and some of which may be all lies. There isn’t much analysis because, really, who knows what happened.
    The author mentions some unique aspects of the Comoros and some of their traditions, which made the book more interesting to me.

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