Cry havoc

By (author): Simon Mann. Mercenary Simon Mann's memoir of his failed 2004 coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea, planned to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and install exiled opposition figure Severo Moto. The plot unravelled before it began: an advance team was arrested in Malabo, while Mann and his men were seized in Harare after Obiang coordinated with Robert Mugabe's government. The book includes Mann's prison diaries from his subsequent incarceration and details his backers, including financier Mark Thatcher.