Bibliograph

Freight dogs, Giles Foden

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Freight dogs, Giles Foden

Language

eng

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Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Freight dogs

Responsibility statement

Giles Foden

Summary

1996: in a Ugandan dive bar, the 'freight dogs' gather. An anarchic group of mercenary pilots from Texas, Russia, Kenya and Belgium who transport weapons between warring African nations, without allegiance. And tonight they have a new recruit Manu, a 19yearold cowherd fleeing Congo's bloody war. Taken in by this band of unlikely brothers, he's soon seeing his vast country from above and falling in love with flying. But no matter how fast he flies, trouble follows closely behind. And when the past erupts back into this new life, Manu is forced to leave behind African skies for the chilly embrace of northern Europe. Will Manu be able to reinvent himself yet again? And is Belgian volcanologist Anke Desseaux the answer to his problems or simply another one of them?

Target audience

adult

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