The setting is the Comoro Islands, a speck in the Indian Ocean, three volcanic islands known for their beauty and for their "ylangylang", an exotic flower whose extract is widely used in French perfumes. For many years the Comoros were also the home of Bob Denard, a French mercenary who arrived there by way of the Congo, Katanga, the Yemen, Benin, Gabon, Angola and Biafra. Once in the Comoros he overthrew two presidents in three years. In 1989 he too was overthrown and disappeared. Samantha Weinberg goes in search of Bob ...
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The setting is the Comoro Islands, a speck in the Indian Ocean, three volcanic islands known for their beauty and for their "ylangylang", an exotic flower whose extract is widely used in French perfumes. For many years the Comoros were also the home of Bob Denard, a French mercenary who arrived there by way of the Congo, Katanga, the Yemen, Benin, Gabon, Angola and Biafra. Once in the Comoros he overthrew two presidents in three years. In 1989 he too was overthrown and disappeared. Samantha Weinberg goes in search of Bob Denard. She traces him across the Comoros, investigates his past and his role in the murder of Abdallah, the last president, before she finally tracks him down in South Africa for a series of interviews about his past. This is a classic quest but it is also a story of cruelty, venality, beauty, suffering - and murder.
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