Bulletproof: Jimmy Rasta and the Malaitans

The long spell of political violence that rocked the Solomon Islands last decade, commonly referred to as "The Tensions," is an episode we know far too little about. We were thus delighted to stumble across this excellent post-mortem from New Zealand's Sunday Star-Times, which details how the conflict's aftermath still lingers in a major way. Like much of the best non-fiction, it combines general history with the narrative of a single man: feared warlord Jimmy "Rasta" Lusibaea, who led an...