James Brabazon is a frontline journalist and documentary filmmaker. Based in London, he has travelled in over sixty countries - investigating, photographing, filming and directing in the world's most hostile environments. His awards include the Rory Peck Trust Sony International Impact Award 2003, the Rory Peck Trust Freelancer's Choice Award 2003, the IDA Courage Under Fire Award 2004 and the IDFA Joris Ivens Competition Special Jury Award 2004. He has also been nominated for two BAFTAs and two Emmys. He has made thirty international current affairs films broadcast by the BBC, Channel 4, CNN, SABC and the Discovery Channel. He lecturers on the ethics and practicalities of journalism in war zones and has written for the Observer, the Independent and the Guardian.
"Among the most exciting true stories of adventure--and
misadventure--I've ever read about modern Africa; a beautifully
written adrenaline rush by one of our generation's bravest
journalists." --Aidan Hartley, author of The Zanzibar Chest "An
outstanding memoir about the power of friendship in the morally
complex theater of war. James Brabazon is a fearless reporter and a
brutally honest narrator. I couldn't put this book down." --Andy
McNab, author of Bravo Two Zero "One of the most brutal, true
stories you may ever read and yet streaming through it is a
remarkable and unlikely friendship."--Peter Hallett, Utterance
"Intensely vivid story of war and the peculiar breed of warriors
who fight in 21st-century Africa. . . A haunting memoir and tribute
to an extraordinary comrade-at-arms."--Kirkus Reviews "Reads like a
political thriller. Brabazon's searing narrative captures both the
allure of war--the rush of danger, the deep camaraderie, the
get-rich-quick mirages--and its brutal realities. It's both a
seductive paean to and a harsh exposé of the mercenary ethos that
fattens off of Africa's travails."--Publishers Weekly "Unsparing
prose, a visceral shock ride into horror. This book reveals the
savagery of Africa's least known wars, fed and exploited by
opportunists and plunderers who are drawn to these ravaged
countries like vultures to a carcass."
--Jonathan Kaplan, author of The Dressing Station "The first two
thirds of Brabazon's extraordinary confessional, My Friend the
Mercenary, is the story of how the professional partnership of a
young, liberal British filmmaker and a hit man for apartheid South
Africa developed into intimate comradeship. It was a strange and
dangerous liaison, and it found itself in the heart of darkness. .
. . The concluding chapters of his book present as full and
convincing an account of that failed assault on Equatorial Guinea
as we are likely to read."--The Scotsman (UK)
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