I’ve had this Giles Foden book kicking around for a while now, and thought it was about time to read it. It’s set in, well, Zanzibar, with a backdrop around the embassey bombings in east Africa from a few years ago – particularly the one in Kenya.
I thoroughly enjoyed the book, with its attempt to try and get inside the heads of the members of Al-Qaeda who carry out the atrocities.
I suppose the one thing that you know is going to happen in this book is that at some point a bomb is going to go off. Yet when it does, it still surprises and the horror is well conveyed.
All in all a thoroughly good book.